CVE-2021-29630

HIGH
8.1
CVSS Score
Published: August 30, 2021 at 06:01 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:48 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFreeBSD

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Severity
HIGH8.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

In FreeBSD 13.0-STABLE before n246938-0729ba2f49c9, 12.2-STABLE before r370383, 11.4-STABLE before r370381, 13.0-RELEASE before p4, 12.2-RELEASE before p10, and 11.4-RELEASE before p13, the ggatec daemon does not validate the size of a response before writing it to a fixed-sized buffer allowing a malicious attacker in a privileged network position to overwrite the stack of ggatec and potentially execute arbitrary code.

Affected

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-787

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