CVE-2005-1400: Freebsd

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The i386_get_ldt system call in FreeBSD 4.7 to 4.11 and 5.x to 5.4 allows local users to access sensitive kernel memory via arguments with negative or very large values.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 4.7 only; version 4.8 only; version 4.9 only; version 4.10 only; version 4.11 only; version 5.1 only; …

Published 2005-05-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.