CVE-2019-18178

HIGH

FreeRTOS+FAT 160919a - Use-After-Free in FF_Close

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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().

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/bugs/199/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0028
EPSS Percentile 51.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (1)
amazon/freertos\+fat 160919a
Published Nov 04, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026