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Unscored CVE-2005-1406 EUVD-2005-1409GHSA-cg6m-w7xp-6g8r

The kernel in FreeBSD 4.x to 4.11 and 5.x to 5.4 does not properly clear certain fixed-length buffers when copying variable-length data for…

Published May 6, 2005 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

The kernel in FreeBSD 4.x to 4.11 and 5.x to 5.4 does not properly clear certain fixed-length buffers when copying variable-length data for use by applications, which could allow those applications to read previously used sensitive memory.

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