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CVE-2001-1559

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2001-12-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The uipc system calls (uipc_syscalls.c) in OpenBSD 2.9 and 3.0 provide user mode return instead of versus rval kernel mode values to the fdrelease function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service and trigger a null dereference.

Affected Platforms

Openbsd Openbsd

Weakness Type

CWE-476

References