CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.3. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2020-25578
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.3
EPSS
2.31%
Original NVD Description
In FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE before r368969, 11.4-STABLE before r369047, 12.2-RELEASE before p3, 12.1-RELEASE before p13 and 11.4-RELEASE before p7 several file systems were not properly initializing the d_off field of the dirent structures returned by VOP_READDIR. In particular, tmpfs(5), smbfs(5), autofs(5) and mqueuefs(5) were failing to do so. As a result, eight uninitialized kernel stack bytes may be leaked to userspace by these file systems.
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