CVE-2005-0708: Dragonflybsd

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The sendfile system call in FreeBSD 4.8 through 4.11 and 5 through 5.4 can transfer portions of kernel memory if a file is truncated while it is being sent, which could allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information.

Affected products

• Dragonflybsd Dragonflybsd: version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only
• 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 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.