CVE-2020-24863 Information

Description

A 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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://www.midnightbsd.org/security/adv/MIDNIGHTBSD-SA-20:01.txt https://github.com/MidnightBSD/src/blob/1691c07ff4f27b97220a5d65e217341e477f4014/sys/kern/vfs_syscalls.c https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-20:18.getfsstat.asc https://www.midnightbsd.org/notes/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5