CVE-2019-5602

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-07-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

In FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE before r349628, 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p7, 11.3-PRERELEASE before r349629, 11.3-RC3 before 11.3-RC3-p1, and 11.2-RELEASE before 11.2-RELEASE-p11, a bug in the cdrom driver allows users with read access to the cdrom device to arbitrarily overwrite kernel memory when media is present thereby allowing a malicious user in the operator group to gain root privileges.

Affected products

FreeBSD: 11.2, 11.2-p10, 11.2-p2, 11.2-p3, 11.2-p4, 11.2-p5 (+12)

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153522/FreeBSD-Security-Advisory-FreeBSD-SA-19-11.cd_ioctl.html
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:11.cd_ioctl.asc
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153522/FreeBSD-Security-Advisory-FreeBSD-SA-19-11.cd_ioctl.html
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:11.cd_ioctl.asc

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