CVE-2018-17155 is a kernel memory disclosure vulnerability affecting FreeBSD versions prior to 11.2-STABLE(r338983), 11.2-RELEASE-p4, 11.1-RELEASE-p15, 10.4-STABLE(r338984), and 10.4-RELEASE-p13. The vulnerability, rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.5), allows unprivileged local users to access small amounts of privileged kernel data due to insufficient memory initialization during getcontext and swapcontext system calls. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 11.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:10.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:10.4:p13:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.1:p15:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p4:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.