Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 8, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-6921

Description

In FreeBSD before 11.1-STABLE(r332066) and 11.1-RELEASE-p10, due to insufficient initialization of memory copied to userland in the network subsystem, small amounts of kernel memory may be disclosed to userland processes. Unprivileged authenticated local users may be able to access small amounts of privileged kernel data.

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Affected products

FreeBSD/FreeBSDllm-fuzzy2 versions
<11.1-STABLE(r332066), =11.1-RELEASE-p10+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <11.1-STABLE(r332066), =11.1-RELEASE-p10
- (no CPE)range: FreeBSD 11.x prior to 11.1-RELEASE-p10.

Patches

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References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/104118nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-18:05.mem.ascnvdVendor Advisory

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