CVE-2001-1166

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

linprocfs on FreeBSD 4.3 and earlier does not properly restrict access to kernel memory, which allows one process with debugging rights on a privileged process to read restricted memory from that process.

linprocfs on FreeBSD 4.3 and earlier does not properly restrict access to kernel memory, which allows one process with debugging rights on a privileged process to read restricted memory from that process.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

Type

FreeBSD

First reported 23 years ago

2001-08-21 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:25:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 4.0

4.0

FreeBSD 4.1

4.1

FreeBSD 4.2

4.2

FreeBSD 4.3

4.3

References

FreeBSD-SA-01:55

linprocfs-process-memory-leak(7017)

Patch, Vendor Advisory

1938

3217

Patch, Vendor Advisory

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