High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 3, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-5602
CVE-2019-5602
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.
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Affected products
21cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:-:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 19 more
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p10:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p4:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p5:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p6:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p7:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p9:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.0:p1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.0:p2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.0:p3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.0:p4:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.0:p5:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.0:p6:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: <12.0-RELEASE-p7, <11.3-RC3-p1, <11.2-RELEASE-p11
- (no CPE)range: FreeBSD 12.0 before 12.0-RELEASE-p7 and 11.2 before 11.2-RELEASE-p11
- Range: <12.0-RELEASE-p7, <11.3-RC3-p1, <11.2-RELEASE-p11
Patches
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References
2- packetstormsecurity.com/files/153522/FreeBSD-Security-Advisory-FreeBSD-SA-19-11.cd_ioctl.htmlnvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:11.cd_ioctl.ascnvdVendor Advisory
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