CVE-2006-0379: Freebsd

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

FreeBSD kernel 5.4-STABLE and 6.0 does not completely initialize a buffer before making it available to userland, which could allow local users to read portions of kernel memory.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 5.4 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2006-01-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.