CVE-2017-1000378
The NetBSD qsort() function is recursive, and not randomized, an attacker can construct a pathological input array of N elements that causes qsort() to deterministically recurse N/4 times. This allows attackers to consume arbitrary amounts of stack memory and manipulate stack memory to assist in arbitrary code execution attacks. This affects NetBSD 7.1 and possibly earlier versions.
- Score
- CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2017-06-19
- Last modified
- 2024-08-05
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Affected products
References
- http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/stdlib/qsort.c?rev=1.23&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99255
- https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt