CVE-2004-0435

Severity

36%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

81%

Certain "programming errors" in the msync system call for FreeBSD 5.2.1 and earlier, and 4.10 and earlier, do not properly handle the MS_INVALIDATE operation, which leads to cache consistency problems that allow a local user to prevent certain changes to files from being committed to disk.

Certain "programming errors" in the msync system call for FreeBSD 5.2.1 and earlier, and 4.10 and earlier, do not properly handle the MS_INVALIDATE operation, which leads to cache consistency problems that allow a local user to prevent certain changes to files from being committed to disk.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

FreeBSD

First reported 20 years ago

2004-08-18 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:30:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 4.8

4.8

FreeBSD 4.9

4.9

FreeBSD 4.10

4.10

FreeBSD 5.2

5.2

References

FreeBSD-SA-04:11

11714

10416

freebsd-msync-gain-privileges(16254)

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