CVE-2004-0114: 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…

PriorityP419medium4.6CVSS 2.0

AVLACLAuNCPIPAP

EXPLOIT

EPSS

0.72%

49.4th percentile

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.

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
freebsd	freebsd	<= 5.2	—
netbsd	netbsd	<= 1.3	—
openbsd	openbsd	<= 2.6	—

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