Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 6, 2020· Updated Aug 4, 2024
CVE-2020-7460
CVE-2020-7460
Description
In FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE before r363918, 12.1-RELEASE before p8, 11.4-STABLE before r363919, 11.4-RELEASE before p2, and 11.3-RELEASE before p12, the sendmsg system call in the compat32 subsystem on 64-bit platforms has a time-of-check to time-of-use vulnerability allowing a mailcious userspace program to modify control message headers after they were validation.
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Affected products
2- FreeBSD/FreeBSDdescription
Patches
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References
3- security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-20:23.sendmsg.ascmitrex_refsource_MISC
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200821-0005/mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
- www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-949/mitrex_refsource_MISC
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