# CVE-2019-18178: Real Time Engineers FreeRTOS+FAT 160919a has a use after free.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-11-04 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Real Time Engineers FreeRTOS+FAT 160919a has a use after free. The function FF_Close() is defined in ff_file.c. The file handler pxFile is freed by ffconfigFREE, which (by default) is a macro definition of vPortFree(), but it is reused to flush modified file content from the cache to disk by the function FF_FlushCache().

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## References

- https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/bugs/199/

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