CVE-2008-0777: Freebsd

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The sendfile system call in FreeBSD 5.5 through 7.0 does not check the access flags of the file descriptor used for sending a file, which allows local users to read the contents of write-only files.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 5.5 only; version 6.2 only; version 6.3 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2008-02-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.