CVE-2001-0062 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the procfs filesystem of FreeBSD and potentially other operating systems. A local user can trigger a kernel hang by calling mmap on their own process's mem file. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a low severity with local access required and only a partial impact on availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or media coverage, although it has garnered some community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:3.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.