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CVE-2003-1234
Integer overflow in the f_count counter in FreeBSD before 4.2 through 5.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and…
Low3.6EPSS 0.43%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Integer overflow in the f_count counter in FreeBSD before 4.2 through 5.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via multiple calls to (1) fpathconf and (2) lseek, which do not properly decrement f_count through a call to fdrop.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low3.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.43% · top 62% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.6.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- http://www.pine.nl/press/pine-cert-20030101.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20030106 PDS: Integer overflow in FreeBSD kernel (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20030106 PDS: Integer overflow in FreeBSD kernel (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCHx_transferred
- 20030107 FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:44.filedesc (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 6524 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1005898 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- freebsd-kernel-integer-overflow(10993) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 7821 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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