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CVE-2001-0062

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2001-02-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

procfs in FreeBSD and possibly other operating systems allows local users to cause a denial of service by calling mmap on the process' own mem file, which causes the kernel to hang.

Affected products

• FreeBSD: 3.5.1, 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.2

References

• http://www.osvdb.org/1698
• http://www.osvdb.org/6082
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2131
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6107
• http://www.osvdb.org/1698
• http://www.osvdb.org/6082
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2131
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6107

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