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

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HIGH

Real Time Engineers FreeRTOS+FAT 160919a has a use after free

Published Nov 4, 2019

7.5

HIGH

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.92%

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().

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-416

Use After Free

References (1)

https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/bugs/199/
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/bugs/199/		x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Nov 4, 2019

Updated Aug 5, 2024

Reserved Oct 17, 2019

Link CVE-2019-18178

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2019-18178

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2019-18178