CVE-2019-15879: Freebsd

High severity, CVSS 7.4. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE before r356908, 12.1-RELEASE before p5, 11.3-STABLE before r356908, and 11.3-RELEASE before p9, a race condition in the cryptodev module permitted a data structure in the kernel to be used after it was freed, allowing an unprivileged process can overwrite arbitrary kernel memory.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 11.3 only; version 12.1 only

Published 2020-05-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.