CVEvulnerability
CVE-2000-0461
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2000-05-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
The undocumented semconfig system call in BSD freezes the state of semaphores, which allows local users to cause a denial of service of the semaphore system by using the semconfig call.
Affected configurations
• freebsd freebsd 1.1.5.1
• freebsd freebsd 2.0
• freebsd freebsd 2.0.5
• freebsd freebsd 2.1.0
• freebsd freebsd 2.1.5
• freebsd freebsd 2.1.6
• freebsd freebsd 2.1.6.1
• freebsd freebsd 2.1.7.1
• freebsd freebsd 2.2
• freebsd freebsd 2.2.2
• freebsd freebsd 2.2.3
• freebsd freebsd 2.2.4
• freebsd freebsd 2.2.5
• freebsd freebsd 2.2.6
• freebsd freebsd 2.2.8
• freebsd freebsd 3.0
• freebsd freebsd 3.1
• freebsd freebsd 3.2
• freebsd freebsd 3.3
• freebsd freebsd 3.4
• freebsd freebsd 4.0
• freebsd freebsd 5.0
• netbsd netbsd 1.4.1
• netbsd netbsd 1.4.2
References
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:19.semconfig.asc ftp.freebsd.org
- ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2000-004.txt.asc ftp.netbsd.org
- http://www.openbsd.org/errata26.html#semconfig www.openbsd.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1270 www.securityfocus.com
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:19.semconfig.asc ftp.freebsd.org
- ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2000-004.txt.asc ftp.netbsd.org
- http://www.openbsd.org/errata26.html#semconfig www.openbsd.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1270 www.securityfocus.com