CVE-2001-0062

medium

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6107

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2131

http://www.osvdb.org/6082

http://www.osvdb.org/1698

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2001-02-12

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0007