First published: Wed Jun 30 2004(Updated: )
FreeBSD 5.1 for the Alpha processor allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via an execve system call with an unaligned memory address as an argument.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
FreeBSD Kernel | =5.1-releng | |
FreeBSD Kernel | =5.1-release_p5 | |
FreeBSD Kernel | =5.1-release | |
FreeBSD Kernel | =5.1-alpha | |
FreeBSD Kernel | =4.10-release | |
FreeBSD Kernel | =5.1 | |
FreeBSD Kernel | =5.2.1-release |
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CVE-2004-0618 is classified as a denial of service vulnerability.
CVE-2004-0618 exploits the execve system call with an unaligned memory address, causing a crash.
CVE-2004-0618 affects FreeBSD 5.1 for the Alpha processor and potentially other versions.
To fix CVE-2004-0618, update your FreeBSD system to a version that does not contain this vulnerability.
CVE-2004-0618 is a local vulnerability, meaning it cannot be exploited remotely without local access.