CVE-2006-2655: Freebsd

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The build process for ypserv in FreeBSD 5.3 up to 6.1 accidentally disables access restrictions when using the /var/yp/securenets file, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 5.3 only; version 5.4 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.1 only

Published 2006-06-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.