CVE-2019-5596 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kfreebsd-10  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-KFREEBSD10-337407
  • published12 Feb 2019
  • disclosed12 Feb 2019

Introduced: 12 Feb 2019

CVE-2019-5596  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kfreebsd-10 package and not the kfreebsd-10 package as distributed by Debian.

In FreeBSD 11.2-STABLE after r338618 and before r343786, 12.0-STABLE before r343781, and 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p3, a bug in the reference count implementation for UNIX domain sockets can cause a file structure to be incorrectly released potentially allowing a malicious local user to gain root privileges or escape from a jail.