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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-06-19T16:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T22:00:41.543Z

Reserved: 2017-06-13T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-1000378

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-06-19T16:29:00.657

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223

Link: CVE-2017-1000378

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