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CVE-2004-1066

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.6 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: 2005-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The cmdline pseudofiles in (1) procfs on FreeBSD 4.8 through 5.3, and (2) linprocfs on FreeBSD 5.x through 5.3, do not properly validate a process argument vector, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) or read portions of kernel memory. NOTE: this candidate might be SPLIT into 2 separate items in the future.

Affected products

• FreeBSD: 4.0, 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 (+17)

References

• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18321
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18321

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