CVE-2004-1066 - Cultured Warning

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.

Reference

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:17.procfs.asc https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18321