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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 28, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-17155

CVE-2018-17155

Description

In FreeBSD before 11.2-STABLE(r338983), 11.2-RELEASE-p4, 11.1-RELEASE-p15, 10.4-STABLE(r338984), and 10.4-RELEASE-p13, due to insufficient initialization of memory copied to userland in the getcontext and swapcontext system calls, small amounts of kernel memory may be disclosed to userland processes. Unprivileged authenticated local users may be able to access small amounts privileged kernel data.

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Affected products

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  • FreeBSD/FreeBSDllm-fuzzy2 versions
    before 11.2-RELEASE-p4, 11.1-RELEASE-p15, 10.4-RELEASE-p13+ 1 more
    • (no CPE)range: before 11.2-RELEASE-p4, 11.1-RELEASE-p15, 10.4-RELEASE-p13
    • (no CPE)range: 11.2 before 11.2-RELEASE-p4

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