CVE-2019-5596

Summary

CVECVE-2019-5596
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-02-12 05:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-24 17:37:00 UTC
DescriptionIn FreeBSD 11.2-STABLE after r338618 and before r343786, 12.0-STABLE before r343781, and 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p3, a bug in the reference count implementation for UNIX domain sockets can cause a file structure to be incorrectly released potentially allowing a malicious local user to gain root privileges or escape from a jail.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Freebsd Freebsd 11.2 All All All
Application Freebsd Freebsd 12.0 All All All
Application Freebsd Freebsd 11.2 All All All
Application Freebsd Freebsd 12.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
FreeBSD fd Privilege Escalation ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
FreeBSD-SA-19:02 FREEBSD security.FreeBSD.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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