SB2019070318 - Information disclosure in FreeBSD
Published: July 3, 2019 Updated: August 8, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019070318
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-5601)
The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated user to gain access to sensitive information.
In FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE before r347474, 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p7, 11.2-STABLE before r347475, and 11.2-RELEASE before 11.2-RELEASE-p11, a bug in the FFS implementation causes up to three bytes of kernel stack memory to be written to disk as uninitialized directory entry padding.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.