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CVE-2001-1559 — MEDIUM severity vulnerability (The uipc system calls (uipc_syscalls.c) in OpenBSD 2.9 and 3)

The uipc system calls (uipc_syscalls.c) in OpenBSD 2.9 and 3.0 provide user mode return instead of versus rval kernel mode values to the fdrelease function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service and trigger a null dereference.

CVE IDCVE-2001-1559
SeverityMEDIUM
CVSS score5.5
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWECWE-476
StatusModified
Published2001-12-31
Last modified2026-04-16
DescriptionThe uipc system calls (uipc_syscalls.c) in OpenBSD 2.9 and 3.0 provide user mode return instead of versus rval kernel mode values to the fdrelease function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service and trigger a null dereference.
SourceNIST National Vulnerability Database

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