The shmat system call in the System V Shared Memory...
Vulnerability Description
The shmat system call in the System V Shared Memory interface for FreeBSD 5.2 and earlier, NetBSD 1.3 and earlier, and OpenBSD 2.6 and earlier, does not properly decrement a shared memory segment's reference count when the vm_map_find function fails, which could allow local users to gain read or write access to a portion of kernel memory and gain privileges.
Impact Analysis
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Remediation
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References
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15061
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9586
- http://www.osvdb.org/3836
- http://www.openbsd.org/errata33.html#sysvshm
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107608375207601&w=2
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:02.shmat.asc
- http://www.pine.nl/press/pine-cert-20040201.txt
- ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2004-004.txt.asc
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