CVE-2018-6924: FreeBSD ELF Header Parsing Kernel Memory Disclosure

CVE

CVE-2018-6924

Published

2019-07-14 22:00

Collected

2026-07-08 12:31

---
id: 4479
title: "CVE-2018-6924: FreeBSD ELF Header Parsing Kernel Memory Disclosure"
cve: CVE-2018-6924
source_domain: blog.quarkslab.com
source_url: "https://blog.quarkslab.com/cve-2018-6924-freebsd-elf-header-parsing-kernel-memory-disclosure.html"
published_at: "2019-07-14T22:00:00Z"
tags: ["exploitation", "vulnerability", "kernel", "memory-disclosure", "freebsd", "cve-2018-6924"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4479"
lang: en
---

# CVE-2018-6924: FreeBSD ELF Header Parsing Kernel Memory Disclosure

## Summary

Analysis of CVE-2018-6924 (FreeBSD-SA-18:12): insufficient ELF header validation in the FreeBSD kernel lets a local unprivileged user leak kernel memory; with a fix walkthrough.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.quarkslab.com
- **CVE:** CVE-2018-6924
- **Published:** 2019-07-14T22:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://blog.quarkslab.com/cve-2018-6924-freebsd-elf-header-parsing-kernel-memory-disclosure.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4479