Title: healthd Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
A vulnerability is present in the healthd program, by Jim Housley. While exact details were notmade public, the vulnerability is a local buffer overrun that allows a local attacker to obtain root privileges. This vulnerability was found by the FreeBSD ports auditing team. While the FreeBSD port was vulnerable, healthd is not installed by default; instead it is part of the ports collection, a collection of over 3200 pieces of software ported to FreeBSD.
Affected Products:
- Jim Housley healthd 0.1.0
- Jim Housley healthd 0.2.0
- Jim Housley healthd 0.3.0
References:
- Jim Housley: FreeBSD HEALTHD Daemon Software Homepage
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