CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-24385

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2020-09-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-09-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

In 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().

Affected configurations

• midnightbsd midnightbsd (< 1.2.6) • midnightbsd midnightbsd (>= 1.3 <= 2020-08-19) • freebsd freebsd (<= 7.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References