CVE-2004-1066

Severity

36%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

81%

The cmdline pseudofiles in (1) procfs on FreeBSD 4.8 through 5.3, and (2) linprocfs on FreeBSD 5.x through 5.3, do not properly validate a process argument vector, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) or read portions of kernel memory. NOTE: this candidate might be SPLIT into 2 separate items in the future.

The cmdline pseudofiles in (1) procfs on FreeBSD 4.8 through 5.3, and (2) linprocfs on FreeBSD 5.x through 5.3, do not properly validate a process argument vector, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) or read portions of kernel memory. NOTE: this candidate might be SPLIT into 2 separate items in the future.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

FreeBSD

First reported 20 years ago

2005-01-10 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:30:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 4.0

4.0

FreeBSD 4.1

4.1

FreeBSD 4.1.1

4.1.1

FreeBSD 4.2

4.2

FreeBSD 4.3

4.3

FreeBSD 4.4

4.4

FreeBSD 4.5

4.5

FreeBSD 4.6

4.6

FreeBSD 4.7

4.7

FreeBSD 4.8

4.8

FreeBSD 4.9

4.9

FreeBSD 4.10

4.10

FreeBSD 5.0

5.0

FreeBSD 5.1

5.1

FreeBSD 5.2

5.2

FreeBSD 5.3

5.3

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