[Secure-testing-team] Bug#824605: kfreebsd-10: CVE-2016-1887: Incorrect argument handling in sendmsg(2)

[Steven Chamberlain]

Package: src:kfreebsd-10
Version: 10.1~svn274115-4+kbsd8u3
Severity: grave
Tags: security

https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:19.sendmsg.asc

Incorrect argument handling in the socket code allows malicious local
user to overwrite large portion of the kernel memory.

This affects 10.1 in sid and jessie;  10.3 and 11.1 in experimental.
It was not reported to affect 9.0.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: kfreebsd-amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: kFreeBSD 10.1-0-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)