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High severity7.4NVD Advisory· Published May 13, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2019-15879

CVE-2019-15879

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.

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Affected products

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  • FreeBSD/FreeBSD14 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:-:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 13 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:p1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:p2:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:p3:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:p4:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:p5:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:p6:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:p7:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:p8:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.1:p1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.1:p2:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.1:p3:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.1:p4:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • FreeBSD/FreeBSD cryptodev moduledescription
  • FreeBSD/cryptodev modulellm-create
    Range: <=12.1-STABLE r356908, <=12.1-RELEASE p5, <=11.3-STABLE r356908, <=11.3-RELEASE p9

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