Buffer Overread Vulnerability in FreeBSD Kernel

CVE-2005-1406 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The kernel in FreeBSD 4.x to 4.11 and 5.x to 5.4 does not properly clear certain fixed-length buffers when copying variable-length data for use by applications, which could allow those applications to read previously used sensitive memory.

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