CVE-2019-5612 Information

Description

In FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE before r351264 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p10 11.3-STABLE before r351265 11.3-RELEASE before 11.3-RELEASE-p3 and 11.2-RELEASE before 11.2-RELEASE-p14 the kernel driver for /dev/midistat implements a read handler that is not thread-safe. A multi-threaded program can exploit races in the handler to copy out kernel memory outside the boundaries of midistat’s data buffer.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:23.midi.asc https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190910-0002/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5