CVE-2001-0062: Freebsd

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

procfs in FreeBSD and possibly other operating systems allows local users to cause a denial of service by calling mmap on the process' own mem file, which causes the kernel to hang.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 3.5.1 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.1.1 only; version 4.2 only

Published 2001-02-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.