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CVE-2020-7460

Published: Aug 6, 2020

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

In FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE before r363918, 12.1-RELEASE before p8, 11.4-STABLE before r363919, 11.4-RELEASE before p2, and 11.3-RELEASE before p12, the sendmsg system call in the compat32 subsystem on 64-bit platforms has a time-of-check to time-of-use vulnerability allowing a mailcious userspace program to modify control message headers after they were validation.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	FreeBSD	affected `FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE before p8, 11.4-RELEASE before p2, 11.3-RELEASE before p12`

References

https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-20:23.sendmsg.asc

x_refsource_MISC

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-949/

x_refsource_MISC

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200821-0005/

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