CVE-2020-24863

medium

Description

A memory corruption vulnerability was found in the kernel function kern_getfsstat in MidnightBSD before 1.2.7 and 1.3 through 2020-08-19, and FreeBSD through 11.4, that allows an attacker to trigger an invalid free and crash the system via a crafted size value in conjunction with an invalid mode.

References

https://www.midnightbsd.org/notes/

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-20:18.getfsstat.asc

https://github.com/MidnightBSD/src/blob/1691c07ff4f27b97220a5d65e217341e477f4014/sys/kern/vfs_syscalls.c

http://www.midnightbsd.org/security/adv/MIDNIGHTBSD-SA-20:01.txt

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-09-03

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00098