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OpenBSD Systrace and Sysjail Multiple Race Condition Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA26479  
Release Date: 2007-08-16

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

OS:OpenBSD 3.x
OpenBSD 4.0


CVE reference:CVE-2007-4305 (Secunia mirror)
This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


Description:
Robert Watson has reported some vulnerabilities in Systrace and Sysjail included in OpenBSD, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions.

For more information:
SA26469

Solution:
Do not rely on the security provided by Systrace or Sysjail.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Robert Watson

Original Advisory:
http://www.watson.org/~robert/2007woot/2007usenixwoot-exploitingconcurrency.pdf

Other References:
SA26469:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26469/


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