Unscored CVE-2002-0831 EUVD-2002-0823GHSA-8m75-38w5-whf5

The kqueue mechanism in FreeBSD 4.3 through 4.6 STABLE allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a pipe call in wh…

Published Apr 2, 2003 · Updated Aug 8, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

The kqueue mechanism in FreeBSD 4.3 through 4.6 STABLE allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a pipe call in which one end is terminated and an EVFILT_WRITE filter is registered for the other end.

References

freebsd-kqueue-dos(9774) vdb-entry
FreeBSD-SA-02:37.kqueue vendor-advisory
5405 vdb-entry
5069 vdb-entry