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It has been reported that FreeBSD may be prone to a local memory disclosure vulnerability that may allow an attacker to access sensitive memory locations without proper validation. This is a result of improper handling of some IPv6 socket options. FreeBSD employs the KAME Project IPv6 implementation, however, this issue does not affect other operating systems. FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE is reported to be affected by this vulnerability.

It has been reported that FreeBSD may be prone to a local memory disclosure vulnerability that may allow an attacker to access sensitive memory locations without proper validation. This is a result of improper handling of some IPv6 socket options. FreeBSD employs the KAME Project IPv6 implementation, however, this issue does not affect other operating systems. FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE is reported to be affected by this vulnerability.