CVE-2017-1000373

medium

Published 2017-06-19 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

The OpenBSD 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 OpenBSD 6.1 and possibly earlier versions.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-42271 local openbsd verified

Qualys Corporation · 2017-06-28

OpenBSD - 'at Stack Clash' Local Privilege Escalation

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OS impact

FreeBSD Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

References

CWEs

CWE-400

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.