Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting freebsd package, versions [1.1.5.1,5.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2382981
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 May 2000
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 May 2000

CVE-2000-0461  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for freebsd.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The undocumented semconfig system call in BSD freezes the state of semaphores, which allows local users to cause a denial of service of the semaphore system by using the semconfig call.

CVSS Scores

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