CVE-2000-0461
N/A
Published: July 12, 2000 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:51 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsFreeBSDNetBSD
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
Description
The undocumented semconfig system call in BSD freezes the state of semaphores, which allows local users to cause a denial of service of the semaphore system by using the semconfig call.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (4)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSD
Source: [email protected]
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:19.semconfig.ascVendor Advisoryx_refsource_NETBSD
Source: [email protected]
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2000-004.txt.ascVendor Advisoryx_refsource_OPENBSD
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openbsd.org/errata26.html#semconfigQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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