CVE-2019-15880

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% 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-20

Description

In FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE before r356911, and 12.1-RELEASE before p5, insufficient checking in the cryptodev module allocated the size of a kernel buffer based on a user-supplied length allowing an unprivileged process to trigger a kernel panic.

Affected products

FreeBSD: 12.1, 12.1-p1, 12.1-p2, 12.1-p3, 12.1-p4

References

https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-20:16.cryptodev.asc
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200518-0008/
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-20:16.cryptodev.asc
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200518-0008/

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