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
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_APPLE)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)