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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EUVD-2017-1537 | 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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T22:00:41.543Z
Reserved: 2017-06-13T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-1000378

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-06-19T16:29:00.657
Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860
Link: CVE-2017-1000378

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