CVE-2020-25578

Published Mar 26, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 5.3 Medium EPSS 2.3% KEV · Not listed
Description
In FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE before r368969, 11.4-STABLE before r369047, 12.2-RELEASE before p3, 12.1-RELEASE before p13 and 11.4-RELEASE before p7 several file systems were not properly initializing the d_off field of the dirent structures returned by VOP_READDIR. In particular, tmpfs(5), smbfs(5), autofs(5) and mqueuefs(5) were failing to do so. As a result, eight uninitialized kernel stack bytes may be leaked to userspace by these file systems.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-18258 In FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE before r368969, 11.4-STABLE before r369047, 12.2-RELEASE before p3, 12.1-RELEASE before p13 and 11.4-RELEASE before p7 several file systems were not properly initializing the d_off field of the dirent structures returned by VOP_READDIR. In particular, tmpfs(5), smbfs(5), autofs(5) and mqueuefs(5) were failing to do so. As a result, eight uninitialized kernel stack bytes may be leaked to userspace by these file systems.
History

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Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
freebsd
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 3:33 PM
Reserved
Sep 14, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 26, 2021, 9:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:06 AM