CVE-2002-0973: Freebsd

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer signedness error in several system calls for FreeBSD 4.6.1 RELEASE-p10 and earlier may allow attackers to access sensitive kernel memory via large negative values to the (1) accept, (2) getsockname, and (3) getpeername system calls, and the (4) vesa FBIO_GETPALETTE ioctl.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.1.1 only; version 4.2 only; version 4.3 only; version 4.4 only; …

Published 2002-09-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.