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BSD "shmat()" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA10806
Release Date: 2004-02-06
Last Update: 2004-02-19
Popularity: 9,457 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:FreeBSD 4.x
FreeBSD 5.x
NetBSD 1.x
OpenBSD 3.x

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Solution:
Update to fixed versions or apply patches.

-- OpenBSD --

OpenBSD 3.4:
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.4/common/010_sysvshm.patch

OpenBSD 3.3:
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.3/common/015_sysvshm.patch


-- FreeBSD --

Fixed in following releases:
* 2004-02-04 18:00:40 UTC (RELENG_4)
* 2004-02-04 18:00:47 UTC (RELENG_5_2, 5.2-RELEASE-p2)
* 2004-02-04 18:00:55 UTC (RELENG_5_1, 5.1-RELEASE-p14)
* 2004-02-04 18:01:03 UTC (RELENG_5_0, 5.0-RELEASE-p20)
* 2004-02-04 18:01:10 UTC (RELENG_4_9, 4.9-RELEASE-p2)
* 2004-02-04 18:01:18 UTC (RELENG_4_8, 4.8-RELEASE-p15)
* 2004-02-04 18:01:25 UTC (RELENG_4_7, 4.7-RELEASE-p25)

Patch:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/patches/SA-04:02/shmat.patch
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/patches/SA-04:02/shmat.patch.asc


-- NetBSD --

The vulnerability has been addressed in the following versions:

* NetBSD-current (February 7th, 2004)
* NetBSD-1.6 branch (February 8th, 2004)

Provided and/or discovered by:
Joost Pol

Changelog:
2004-02-19: Added more information about NetBSD.

Original Advisory:
Pine Digital Security Advisory:
http://www.pine.nl/press/pine-cert-20040201.txt

FreeBSD:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:02.shmat.asc

NetBSD:
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2004-004.txt.asc

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