CVE-2019-15879

Severity: high (CVSS 7.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-05-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

In FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE before r356908, 12.1-RELEASE before p5, 11.3-STABLE before r356908, and 11.3-RELEASE before p9, a race condition in the cryptodev module permitted a data structure in the kernel to be used after it was freed, allowing an unprivileged process can overwrite arbitrary kernel memory.

Affected products

FreeBSD: 11.3, 11.3-p1, 11.3-p2, 11.3-p3, 11.3-p4, 11.3-p5 (+8)

References

https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-20:15.cryptodev.asc
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200518-0005/
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-20:15.cryptodev.asc
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200518-0005/

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