Kernel Memory Access Vulnerability in FreeBSD 4.3 and Earlier

Kernel Memory Access Vulnerability in FreeBSD 4.3 and Earlier

CVE-2001-1166 · MEDIUM Severity

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

linprocfs on FreeBSD 4.3 and earlier does not properly restrict access to kernel memory, which allows one process with debugging rights on a privileged process to read restricted memory from that process.

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