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FreeBSD: VID-14A3B376-B30A-11E9-A87F-A4BADB2F4699 (CVE-2019-5602): FreeBSD -- Privilege escalation in cd(4) driver

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FreeBSD: VID-14A3B376-B30A-11E9-A87F-A4BADB2F4699 (CVE-2019-5602): FreeBSD -- Privilege escalation in cd(4) driver

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
07/02/2019
Created
07/31/2019
Added
07/31/2019
Modified
07/31/2019

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.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-base-11_2-release-p11
  • freebsd-upgrade-base-12_0-release-p7

References

  • CVE-2019-5602

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