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 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.

Date published : 2004-09-01

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9586

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107608375207601&w=2