Vulnerability in FreeBSD
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.007 (52.2th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 52nd percentile — 52.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000
Affected products
References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15061 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/9586 (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.osvdb.org/3836 (vdb-entry)
- www.openbsd.org/errata33.html
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- www.pine.nl/press/pine-cert-20040201.txt