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.
2001-02-12T05:00:00.000
2025-04-03T01:03:51.193
Deferred
CVSSv2: 2.1 (LOW)
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
3.9
2.9
Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
---|---|---|---|---|
Operating System | freebsd | freebsd | 3.5.1 | Yes |
Operating System | freebsd | freebsd | 4.1 | Yes |
Operating System | freebsd | freebsd | 4.1.1 | Yes |
Operating System | freebsd | freebsd | 4.2 | Yes |