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Medium severity5.9NVD Advisory· Published Nov 28, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-17156

CVE-2018-17156

Description

In FreeBSD before 11.2-STABLE(r340268) and 11.2-RELEASE-p5, due to incorrectly accounting for padding on 64-bit platforms, a buffer underwrite could occur when constructing an ICMP reply packet when using a non-standard value for the net.inet.icmp.quotelen sysctl.

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  • FreeBSD/FreeBSDllm-fuzzy4 versions
    <11.2-STABLE(r340268) and <11.2-RELEASE-p5+ 3 more
    • (no CPE)range: <11.2-STABLE(r340268) and <11.2-RELEASE-p5
    • (no CPE)range: FreeBSD 11.2 before 11.2-RELEASE-p5
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <11.2
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p5:*:*:*:*:*:*

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