CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2022-23084 — The total size of the user-provided nmreq to nmreq_copyin() was first computed and then trusted during the copyin
High
CVSS 7.8
The total size of the user-provided nmreq to nmreq_copyin() was first computed and then trusted during the copyin. This time-of-check to time-of-use bug could lead to kernel memory corruption. On systems configured to include netmap in their devfs_ruleset, a privileged process running in a jail can affect the host environment.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.8 (3.1)
- Published
- 2024-02-15
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- operating-system
- Weaknesses
- CWE-367
Affected products
- freebsd / freebsd
- freebsd / freebsd / 12.3
- freebsd / freebsd / 13.0
Matched remediation archetype
Race condition, TOCTOU, and lifecycle synchronization
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Check exposure
- Map concurrent actors, shared state, lock boundaries, signals, callbacks, retries, and check-then-use sequences in the affected path.
- Determine whether untrusted users can influence timing, object names, filesystem state, or repeated state transitions.
- Identify clustered and multi-process behavior that repository-local tests may not represent.
Remediate safely
- Make the sensitive state transition atomic or protect it with a consistently ordered synchronization primitive.
- Perform authorization and invariant checks on the same authoritative object and transaction used for the operation.
- Use unique private resources, safe ownership transfer, and idempotent operations; add deterministic concurrency regression tests.
Authoritative sources
Complete CVE record and remediation plan
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