Description
The sendfile system-call implementation in sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c in the kernel in FreeBSD 9.2-RC1 and 9.2-RC2 does not properly pad transmissions, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information (kernel memory) via a length greater than the length of the file.
References
- FreeBSD-SA-13:11 vendor-advisory
- 97142 vdb-entry
- 1029013 vdb-entry
- http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=255442