CVE-2019-5601
Status: ModifiedMedium (6.5)—
In FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE before r347474, 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p7, 11.2-STABLE before r347475, and 11.2-RELEASE before 11.2-RELEASE-p11, a bug in the FFS implementation causes up to three bytes of kernel stack memory to be written to disk as uninitialized directory entry padding.
CVSS
- Version: 3.0
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Base score: 6.5
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 1.57%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 75
- Score date: 10/7/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (1)
CWEs
- CWE-200
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153523/FreeBSD-Security-Advisory-FreeBSD-SA-19-10.ufs.html
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:10.ufs.asc
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153523/FreeBSD-Security-Advisory-FreeBSD-SA-19-10.ufs.html
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:10.ufs.asc
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