CVE-2000-0461

2000-07-1204:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

6.2 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

The undocumented semconfig system call in BSD freezes the state of semaphores, which allows local users to cause a denial of service of the semaphore system by using the semconfig call.

References

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:19.semconfig.asc

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2000-004.txt.asc

www.openbsd.org/errata26.html#semconfig

www.securityfocus.com/bid/1270