Vulnerability CVE-2009-3527


Published: 2009-10-06   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Race condition in the Pipe (IPC) close function in FreeBSD 6.3 and 6.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) or gain privileges via vectors related to kqueues, which triggers a use after free, leading to a NULL pointer dereference or memory corruption.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
FreeBSD <= 6.1 kqueue() NULL pointer dereference
Przemyslaw Frasu...
23.08.2009

Type:

CWE-362

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.9/10
10/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Freebsd -> Freebsd 

 References:
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022982
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36375
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:13.pipe.asc
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506449
http://osvdb.org/58544

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