Common Problems

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: emacs — movemail format string vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0100 Upstream summary: Max Vozeler discovered several format string vulnerabilities in the movemail utility of Emacs. They can be exploited when connecting […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: p7zip-codec-rar — insufficient error handling Related CVEs: CVE-2018-5996 Upstream summary: MITRE reports: Insufficient exception handling in the method NCompress::NRar3::CDecoder::Code of 7-Zip before 18.00 and p7zip can lead to multiple memory […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: gdm — lock screen bypass when holding escape key Related CVEs: CVE-2011-0727 CVE-2015-7496 Upstream summary: Ray Strode reports: CVE-2015-7496 – lock screen bypass when holding escape key. Table of contents […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: mutt — buffer overflow vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2007-2683 Upstream summary: Securityfocus reports: Mutt is prone to a local buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to properly bounds-check user-supplied input before using […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: irc-ratbox — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2009-4016 CVE-2010-0300 Upstream summary: SecurityFocus reports: The first affects the /quote HELP module and allows a user to trigger an IRCD crash on some […]

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Multiple implementations — DoS via hash algorithm collision Related CVEs: CVE-2011-4815 CVE-2011-4838 CVE-2011-5036 CVE-2011-5037 Upstream summary: oCERT reports: A variety of programming languages suffer from a denial-of-service (DoS) condition against […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: libtorrent — remote DoS Upstream summary: X-cela reports: Calls into build_benocde that use %zu could crash on 64 bit machines due to the size change of size_t. Someone can force […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: xv — exploitable buffer overflows Upstream summary: In a Bugtraq posting, infamous41md(at)hotpop.com reported: there are at least 5 exploitable buffer and heap overflows in the image handling code. this allows […]

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: tinc — Buffer overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2018-16737 CVE-2018-16738 CVE-2018-16758 Upstream summary: tinc-vpn.org reports: The authentication protocol allows an oracle attack that could potentially be exploited. If a man-in-the-middle has intercepted […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: doas — Prevent passing of environment variables Upstream summary: Jesse Smith (upstream author of the doas program) reported: Previous versions of "doas" transferred most environment variables, such as USER, HOME, […]