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High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 12, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-1082

CVE-2017-1082

Description

In FreeBSD 11.x before 11.1-RELEASE and 10.x before 10.4-RELEASE, the qsort algorithm has a deterministic recursion pattern. Feeding a pathological input to the algorithm can lead to excessive stack usage and potential overflow. Applications that use qsort to handle large data set may crash if the input follows the pathological pattern.

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Affected products

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  • FreeBSD/FreeBSDllm-fuzzy2 versions
    <11.1-RELEASE, <10.4-RELEASE+ 1 more
    • (no CPE)range: <11.1-RELEASE, <10.4-RELEASE
    • (no CPE)range: 11.x before 11.1-RELEASE, 10.x before 10.4-RELEASE

Patches

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