CVE-2000-0461 Information

Description

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.

Reference

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 http://www.openbsd.org/errata26.htmlsemconfig http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1270