CVE-2019-5612

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-08-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

In FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE before r351264, 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p10, 11.3-STABLE before r351265, 11.3-RELEASE before 11.3-RELEASE-p3, and 11.2-RELEASE before 11.2-RELEASE-p14, the kernel driver for /dev/midistat implements a read handler that is not thread-safe. A multi-threaded program can exploit races in the handler to copy out kernel memory outside the boundaries of midistat's data buffer.

Affected products

FreeBSD: 11.2, 11.2-p10, 11.2-p11, 11.2-p12, 11.2-p13, 11.2-p2 (+17)
Clustered Data ONTAP: all versions

References

https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:23.midi.asc
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190910-0002/
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:23.midi.asc
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190910-0002/

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