CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-5596

Published: Feb 12, 2019 | Modified: Aug 24, 2020
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

In FreeBSD 11.2-STABLE after r338618 and before r343786, 12.0-STABLE before r343781, and 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p3, a bug in the reference count implementation for UNIX domain sockets can cause a file structure to be incorrectly released potentially allowing a malicious local user to gain root privileges or escape from a jail.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Freebsd Freebsd 11.2 (including) 11.2 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 12.0 (including) 12.0 (including)

References