CVE-2005-1400

CVE-2005-1400 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in FreeBSD versions 4.7 through 4.11 and 5.x through 5.4. This flaw allows a local attacker to read sensitive kernel memory by providing specially crafted negative or excessively large arguments to the i386_get_ldt system call. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.6 (medium severity), indicating a low attack complexity and requiring local access, with potential impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Its EPSS and FAUCET scores are very low, suggesting minimal current risk. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.