CVE-2001-1166

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2001-08-21 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

FreeBSD: 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

References

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7017.php
http://www.osvdb.org/1938
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3217
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7017.php
http://www.osvdb.org/1938
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3217

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