CVE-2005-1126 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-1126
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Description: The SIOCGIFCONF ioctl (ifconf function) in FreeBSD 4.x through 4.11 and 5.x through 5.4 does not properly clear a buffer before using it, which allows local users to obtain portions of sensitive kernel memory.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/20114 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA14959 Secunia Advisory: SA17368 OSVDB 15514 FREEBSD BID 15252 APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Oct/msg00000.html

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