CVE-2001-0062 Information

Description

procfs in FreeBSD and possibly other operating systems allows local users to cause a denial of service by calling mmap on the process’ own mem file which causes the kernel to hang.

Reference

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:77.procfs.v1.1.asc http://www.osvdb.org/1698 http://www.osvdb.org/6082 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2131 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6107