CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-25578

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2021-03-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-03-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-665

Description

In FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE before r368969, 11.4-STABLE before r369047, 12.2-RELEASE before p3, 12.1-RELEASE before p13 and 11.4-RELEASE before p7 several file systems were not properly initializing the d_off field of the dirent structures returned by VOP_READDIR. In particular, tmpfs(5), smbfs(5), autofs(5) and mqueuefs(5) were failing to do so. As a result, eight uninitialized kernel stack bytes may be leaked to userspace by these file systems.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd 11.4 • freebsd freebsd 12.1 • freebsd freebsd 12.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-665 Improper Initialization weakness

References