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High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Aug 6, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

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

23
  • FreeBSD/FreeBSD22 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:-:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 21 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:p10:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:p11:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • 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:11.3:p9:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.4:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.4:p1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • 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:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.1:p6:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.1:p7:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: <12.1-RELEASE p8, <11.4-RELEASE p2, <11.3-RELEASE p12
  • FreeBSD/FreeBSDdescription

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