Security Advisory

CVE-2019-15877

5.5
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

In FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE before r356606 and 12.1-RELEASE before 12.1-RELEASE-p3, driver specific ioctl command handlers in the ixl network driver failed to check whether the caller has sufficient privileges allowing unprivileged users to trigger updates to the device's non-volatile memory.
Published Date April 28, 2020
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory