CVE-2020-24385

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-24385
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-09-03 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-09-11 14:06:00 UTC
DescriptionIn MidnightBSD before 1.2.6 and 1.3 before August 2020, and FreeBSD before 7, a NULL pointer dereference was found in the Linux emulation layer that allows attackers to crash the running kernel. During binary interaction, td->td_emuldata in sys/compat/linux/linux_emul.h is not getting initialized and returns NULL from em_find().

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd All All All All
Application Midnightbsd Midnightbsd All All All All
Application Midnightbsd Midnightbsd All All All All
Application Midnightbsd Midnightbsd All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
www.midnightbsd.org/security/adv/MIDNIGHTBSD-SA-20:02.txt CONFIRM www.midnightbsd.org Vendor Advisory
MidnightBSD Release Notes MISC www.midnightbsd.org Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
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