VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2001-1166

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.39%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2001-08-21
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

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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