FKIE_CVE-2019-18178

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2019-11-04 20:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:24
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Summary
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
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/bugs/199/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/bugs/199/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
amazon freertos\+fat 160919a
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T02:24:24.900",
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