CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-5607

7.8 HIGH Published 2019-07-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-07-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-404, CWE-682

Description

In FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE before r350222, 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p8, 11.3-STABLE before r350223, 11.3-RELEASE before 11.3-RELEASE-p1, and 11.2-RELEASE before 11.2-RELEASE-p12, rights transmitted over a domain socket did not properly release a reference on transmission error allowing a malicious user to cause the reference counter to wrap, forcing a free event. This could allow a malicious local user to gain root privileges or escape from a jail.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd 11.0 • freebsd freebsd 11.2 • freebsd freebsd 11.3 • freebsd freebsd 12.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-404 Improper Resource Shutdown or Release weakness
  • CWE-682 Incorrect Calculation weakness

References