CVE-2002-1125: Freebsd

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

FreeBSD port programs that use libkvm for FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE and earlier, including (1) asmon, (2) ascpu, (3) bubblemon, (4) wmmon, and (5) wmnet2, leave open file descriptors for /dev/mem and /dev/kmem, which allows local users to read kernel memory.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 4.2 only; version 4.3 only; version 4.4 only; version 4.5 only; version 4.6 only

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