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TITLE:
FreeBSD Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA36955

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36955/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in FreeBSD, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service) and potentially gain escalated privileges.

1) A use-after-free error caused by a race condition within the pipe
"close()" implementation related to kqueues can be exploited to e.g.
execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

2) A NULL pointer dereference error can be exploited to e.g. execute
arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

For more information:
SA36945

NOTE: Additionally, the vendor provides an enhancement against NULL
pointer exploits.

SOLUTION:
Update FreeBSD or apply patches.

2009-10-02 18:09:56 UTC (RELENG_6, 6.4-STABLE)
2009-10-02 18:09:56 UTC (RELENG_6_4, 6.4-RELEASE-p7)
2009-10-02 18:09:56 UTC (RELENG_6_3, 6.3-RELEASE-p13)

Patches:
1) http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-09:13/pipe.patch.asc
2) http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-09:14/devfs6.patch.asc

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Przemyslaw Frasunek.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
1) http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:13.pipe.asc
2) http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:14.devfs.asc

http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-09:05.null.asc

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA36945:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36945/

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