Denial of Service Vulnerability in procfs mmap() Function

CVE-2001-0062 · LOW Severity

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

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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