CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0973

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2002-09-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-09-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Integer signedness error in several system calls for FreeBSD 4.6.1 RELEASE-p10 and earlier may allow attackers to access sensitive kernel memory via large negative values to the (1) accept, (2) getsockname, and (3) getpeername system calls, and the (4) vesa FBIO_GETPALETTE ioctl.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd 4.0 • freebsd freebsd 4.1 • freebsd freebsd 4.1.1 • freebsd freebsd 4.2 • freebsd freebsd 4.3 • freebsd freebsd 4.4 • freebsd freebsd 4.5 • freebsd freebsd 4.6 • freebsd freebsd 4.6.1

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