Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting freebsd package, versions [3.5.1,4.2]


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-2383017
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Feb 2001
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Feb 2001

CVE-2001-0062  (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) procfs in FreeBSD and possibly other operating systems allows local users to cause a denial of service by calling mmap on the process' own mem file, which causes the kernel to hang.

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