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CVE-2006-5483

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-10-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

p1003_1b.c in FreeBSD 6.1 allows local users to cause an unspecified denial of service by setting a scheduler policy, which should only be settable by root.

Affected products

• FreeBSD: 6.1

References

• http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2006-May/063969.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22413
• http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/posix4/p1003_1b.c.diff?r1=1.24&r2=1.24.2.1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20517
• http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2006-May/063969.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22413
• http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/posix4/p1003_1b.c.diff?r1=1.24&r2=1.24.2.1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20517

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