CVEvulnerability
CVE-2001-0062
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2001-02-12
- 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
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.
Affected configurations
• freebsd freebsd 3.5.1
• freebsd freebsd 4.1
• freebsd freebsd 4.1.1
• freebsd freebsd 4.2
References
- ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:77.procfs.v1.1.asc Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/1698 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.osvdb.org/6082 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2131 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6107 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:77.procfs.v1.1.asc Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/1698 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.osvdb.org/6082 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2131 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6107 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com