CVE-2001-0062 (GCVE-0-2001-0062)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2001-05-07 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 04:06
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.osvdb.org/6082 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.osvdb.org/1698 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2131 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSD
Date Public
2000-12-18 00:00
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