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Missing Initialization of Resource

CVE-2005-1036

Severity High
Score 7.8/10

Summary

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.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-909 - Missing Initialization of Resource

The software does not initialize a critical resource.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published