CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-1036

Missing Initialization of Resource

Published: May 02, 2005 | Modified: Feb 08, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

FreeBSD 5.x to 5.4 on AMD64 does not properly initialize the IO permission bitmap used to allow user access to certain hardware, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information, and possibly gain privileges.

Weakness

The product does not initialize a critical resource.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Freebsd Freebsd 5.0 (including) 5.4 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References