Pine Digital Security Advisory PINE-CERT-20030101 – A local vulnerability has been found in the FreeBSD kernel which allows privilege escalation or denial of service by taking advantage of the socket file counter. FreeBSD 4.X after 20021111 has been fixed.
You can download this advisory from the following link: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/30716/pine-cert-20030101.txt.asc
Source: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/30716/pine-cert-20030101.txt.asc.html