CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-0708

10.0 HIGH Published 2005-05-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-05-02
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

The sendfile system call in FreeBSD 4.8 through 4.11 and 5 through 5.4 can transfer portions of kernel memory if a file is truncated while it is being sent, which could allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information.

Affected configurations

• dragonflybsd dragonflybsd 1.0 • dragonflybsd dragonflybsd 1.1 • 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 4.6.2 • freebsd freebsd 4.7 • freebsd freebsd 4.8 • freebsd freebsd 4.9 • freebsd freebsd 4.10 • freebsd freebsd 4.11 • freebsd freebsd 5.0 • freebsd freebsd 5.1 • freebsd freebsd 5.2 • freebsd freebsd 5.2.1 • freebsd freebsd 5.3 • freebsd freebsd 5.4

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