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FreeBSD -- Privilege escalation via mmap

Affected packages
9.0 <= FreeBSD < 9.1_4

Details

VuXML ID abef280d-d829-11e2-b71c-8c705af55518
Discovery 2013-06-18
Entry 2013-06-18
Modified 2016-08-09

Due to insufficient permission checks in the virtual memory system, a tracing process (such as a debugger) may be able to modify portions of the traced process's address space to which the traced process itself does not have write access.

References

CVE Name CVE-2013-2171
FreeBSD Advisory SA-13:06.mmap