Vulnerability in Freebsd

CVE-2002-0831

The kqueue mechanism in FreeBSD 4.3 through 4.6 STABLE allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a pipe call in which one end is terminated and an EVFILT_WRITE filter is registered for the other end.

EPSS: 0.003 (25.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Freebsd — versions 4.3, 4.4, 4.5
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_FREEBSD, vendor-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)