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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-1406
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2005-1406

Description:
The kernel in FreeBSD 4.x to 4.11 and 5.x to 5.4 does not properly clear certain fixed-length buffers when copying variable-length data for use by applications, which could allow those applications to read previously used sensitive memory.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA17368

FREEBSD

BID
  15252
  13526

APPLE
  http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Oct/msg00000.html


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