CVE-2008-3531: Freebsd

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in sys/kern/vfs_mount.c in the kernel in FreeBSD 7.0 and 7.1, when vfs.usermount is enabled, allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted (1) mount or (2) nmount system call, related to copying of "user defined data" in "certain error conditions."

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only

Published 2008-09-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.