Vulnerability in cmdline pseudofiles in procfs and linprocfs on FreeBSD

CVE-2004-1066 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

The cmdline pseudofiles in (1) procfs on FreeBSD 4.8 through 5.3, and (2) linprocfs on FreeBSD 5.x through 5.3, do not properly validate a process argument vector, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) or read portions of kernel memory. NOTE: this candidate might be SPLIT into 2 separate items in the future.

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