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Critical Ping Vulnerability Allows Remote Attackers to Take Over FreeBSD Systems

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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2021-44731
A race condition existed in the snapd 2.54.2 snap-confine binary when preparing a private mount namespace for a snap
7.8<1%PoC ×4
CVE-2022-23093
ping reads raw IP packets from the network to process responses in the pr_pack() function
6.52%
CVE-2022-3328
Race condition in snap-confine's must_mkdir_and_open_with_perms()
7.0<1%
CVE-2022-41973
+1 related CVE
multipath-tools 0.7.7 through 0.9.x before 0.9.2 allows local users to obtain root access, as exploited in conjunction with CVE-2022-41974
7.8<1%PoC ×7

From the original article

2 min read at thehackernews.com

 Ravie Lakshmanan  Dec 05, 2022 Endpoint Security / Pen Testing The maintainers of the FreeBSD operating system have released updates to remediate a security vulnerability impacting the ping module that could be potentially exploited to crash the program or trigger remote code execution.

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