CVE-2020-24863

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-24863
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-09-03 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-09-11 14:03:00 UTC
DescriptionA memory corruption vulnerability was found in the kernel function kern_getfsstat in MidnightBSD before 1.2.7 and 1.3 through 2020-08-19, and FreeBSD through 11.4, that allows an attacker to trigger an invalid free and crash the system via a crafted size value in conjunction with an invalid mode.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

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.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-20:18.getfsstat.asc CONFIRM www.freebsd.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
www.midnightbsd.org/security/adv/MIDNIGHTBSD-SA-20:01.txt CONFIRM www.midnightbsd.org Exploit, Vendor Advisory
src/vfs_syscalls.c at 1691c07ff4f27b97220a5d65e217341e477f4014 · MidnightBSD/src · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
MidnightBSD Release Notes MISC www.midnightbsd.org Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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