Vulnerability in Freebsd

CVE-2005-1406

The kernel in FreeBSD 4.x to 4.11 and 5.x to 5.4 does not properly clear certain fixed-length buffers when copying variable-length data for use by applications, which could allow those applications to read previously used sensitive memory.

EPSS: 0.004 (30.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Freebsd — versions 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
  • N/a — versions n/a

References