CVE-2017-1088

low
Published 2017-11-16 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
3.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
2.1
VIR risk
3.3

Description

In FreeBSD before 11.1-STABLE, 11.1-RELEASE-p4, 11.0-RELEASE-p15, 10.4-STABLE, 10.4-RELEASE-p3, and 10.3-RELEASE-p24, the kernel does not properly clear the memory of the kld_file_stat structure before filling the data. Since the structure filled by the kernel is allocated on the kernel stack and copied to userspace, a leak of information from the kernel stack is possible. As a result, some bytes from the kernel stack can be observed in userspace.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
34%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secteam@freebsd.org — https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-17:10.kldstat.asc

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
freebsd freebsd-affected

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.