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CVE-2002-1667

LOW CVSS: 2.1 Published: 2002-12-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The virtual memory management system in FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE and earlier does not properly check the existence of a VM object during page invalidation, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by calling msync on an unaccessed memory map created with MAP_ANON and MAP_NOSYNC flags.

Affected Platforms

Freebsd Freebsd

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References