CVE-2019-18178

high

Description

Real Time Engineers FreeRTOS+FAT 160919a has a use after free. The function FF_Close() is defined in ff_file.c. The file handler pxFile is freed by ffconfigFREE, which (by default) is a macro definition of vPortFree(), but it is reused to flush modified file content from the cache to disk by the function FF_FlushCache().

References

https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/bugs/199/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-11-04

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00278