Vulnerability · Published Sep 3, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-24385

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 31% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 69.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In MidnightBSD before 1.2.6 and 1.3 before August 2020, and FreeBSD before 7, a NULL pointer dereference was found in the Linux emulation layer that allows attackers to crash the running kernel. During binary interaction, td->td_emuldata in sys/compat/linux/linux_emul.h is not getting initialized and returns NULL from em_find().

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://www.midnightbsd.org/notes/ x_refsource_MISC
http://www.midnightbsd.org/security/adv/MIDNIGHTBSD-SA-20:02.txt x_refsource_CONFIRM