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CVE-2004-0114

CVE information

Published

20 years ago

Last Modified

6 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
4.6/10
Exploit Score
3.9/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
6.4/10
Confidentiality Impact
Partial
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
Partial

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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