# CVE-2020-24863: A memory corruption vulnerability was found in the kernel function kern\_getfsstat in MidnightBSD before 1.2.7 and 1.3 through 2020-08-19, an

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-09-03 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

A memory corruption vulnerability was found in the kernel function kern_getfsstat in MidnightBSD before 1.2.7 and 1.3 through 2020-08-19, and FreeBSD through 11.4, that allows an attacker to trigger an invalid free and crash the system via a crafted size value in conjunction with an invalid mode.

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## References

- https://www.midnightbsd.org/notes/
- https://github.com/MidnightBSD/src/blob/1691c07ff4f27b97220a5d65e217341e477f4014/sys/kern/vfs_syscalls.c
- http://www.midnightbsd.org/security/adv/MIDNIGHTBSD-SA-20:01.txt
- https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-20:18.getfsstat.asc

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