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A vulnerability was found in FreeBSD 12.1 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2019-15880. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. It is advisable to implement a patch to correct this issue.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in FreeBSD 12.1 (Operating System). Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was published 05/13/2020. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-15880 since 09/03/2019. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

Similar entries are available at VDB-155179 and VDB-155178. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Operating System

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• FreeBSD

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• 12.1

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• open-source

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• Product: https://www.freebsd.org/

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