CVE-2002-0831 Information

Description

The kqueue mechanism in FreeBSD 4.3 through 4.6 STABLE allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a pipe call in which one end is terminated and an EVFILT_WRITE filter is registered for the other end.

Reference

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102865142610126&w=2 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9774.php http://www.osvdb.org/5069 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5405