1.0 Introduction
Recently, The FreeBSD Project has released a security update to address a critical vulnerability (
CVE-2024-4172
) affecting multiple versions of its operating system.
2.0 Impact
This vulnerability could lead an attacker an arbitrary write and remote code execution.
3.0 Affected Products
- All supported versions of FreeBSD
4.0 Recommendations
CyberSecurity Malaysia encourages users and administrators to review the FreeBSD release and apply the necessary updates.
Kindly refer to the following URL:
Generally, Cyber999 advise users to be updated with the latest security announcements by the vendor and follow best practice security policies to determine which updates should be applied.
For further enquiries, please contact Cyber999 Incident Response Centre through the following channels:
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5.0 References