CVEvulnerability
CVE-2001-1166
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2001-08-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• freebsd freebsd 4.0
• freebsd freebsd 4.1
• freebsd freebsd 4.2
• freebsd freebsd 4.3
Related
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-267 Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions weakness
References
- ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-01:55.procfs.asc ftp.FreeBSD.org
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7017.php Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/1938 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3217 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-01:55.procfs.asc ftp.FreeBSD.org
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7017.php Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/1938 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3217 Patch, Vendor Advisory