The shmat system call in the System V Shared Memory interface for FreeBSD 5.2 and earlier, NetBSD 1.3 and earlier, and OpenBSD 2.6 and earlier, does not properly decrement a shared memory segment's reference count when the vm_map_find function fails, which could allow local users to gain read or write access to a portion of kernel memory and gain privileges.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2004-09-01T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T00:10:03.552Z

Reserved: 2004-02-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2004-0114

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2004-03-03T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2017-10-10T01:30:17.797

Link: CVE-2004-0114

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