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Message-ID: <web-43718618@cgp.agava.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:20:06 +0400
From: "Evgeny Demidov" <demidov@...g.net>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, security-officer@...bsd.org
Subject: NetBSD kernel swapctl(2) vulnerability
Name: NetBSD kernel swapctl(2) vulnerability
Date: 11 June 2004
CVE candidate: not assigned
Author: Evgeny Demidov
Description:
There exists a integer handling vulnerability in NetBSD
swapctl(2) system call.
It seems that this vulnerability can not be exploited to
gain super-user
privilegies, but any local attacker can crash the kernel.
Fix:
It is available in CVS:
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/uvm/uvm_swap.c.diff?r1=1.85&r2=1.85.2.1
History:
The vulnerability has been discovered several months ago
by Evgeny Demidov during NetBSD kernel source code au
dit.
It has been made availabe to VulnDisco clients two months
ago.
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