CVE-2011-4062: Freebsd

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the kernel in FreeBSD 7.3 through 9.0-RC1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) or possibly gain privileges via a bind system call with a long pathname for a UNIX socket.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 8.1 only; version 8.2 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2011-10-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.