SB2013070205 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in FreeBSD
Published: July 2, 2013 Updated: August 11, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2013070205
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-2171)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
The vm_map_lookup function in sys/vm/vm_map.c in the mmap implementation in the kernel in FreeBSD 9.0 through 9.1-RELEASE-p4 does not properly determine whether a task should have write access to a memory location, which allows local users to bypass filesystem write permissions and consequently gain privileges via a crafted application that leverages read permissions, and makes mmap and ptrace system calls.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.