CVE-2001-0062

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

procfs in FreeBSD and possibly other operating systems allows local users to cause a denial of service by calling mmap on the process' own mem file, which causes the kernel to hang.

procfs in FreeBSD and possibly other operating systems allows local users to cause a denial of service by calling mmap on the process' own mem file, which causes the kernel to hang.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

FreeBSD

First reported 24 years ago

2001-02-12 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 3.5.1

3.5.1

FreeBSD 4.1

4.1

FreeBSD 4.1.1

4.1.1

FreeBSD 4.2

4.2

References

FreeBSD-SA-00:77

Patch, Vendor Advisory

1698

6082

2131

Patch, Vendor Advisory

procfs-mmap-dos(6107)

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