CVE-2005-1406

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

The kernel in FreeBSD 4.x to 4.11 and 5.x to 5.4 does not properly clear certain fixed-length buffers when copying variable-length data for use by applications, which could allow those applications to read previously used sensitive memory.

The kernel in FreeBSD 4.x to 4.11 and 5.x to 5.4 does not properly clear certain fixed-length buffers when copying variable-length data for use by applications, which could allow those applications to read previously used sensitive memory.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

FreeBSD

First reported 19 years ago

2005-05-06 04:00:00

Last updated 13 years ago

2011-03-08 02:21:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 4.1

4.1

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 4.11

4.11

FreeBSD 5.1

5.1

FreeBSD 5.2

5.2

FreeBSD 5.3

5.3

FreeBSD 5.4

5.4

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