CVE-2002-1667

CVE-2002-1667 concerns the FreeBSD virtual memory subsystem. Affected: FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE and earlier. Description: during page invalidation, the VM subsystem does not properly verify the existence of a VM object, allowing local users to trigger a crash (DoS) by calling msync on an unaccessed me...

CVE-2002-1667

The virtual memory management system in FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE and earlier does not properly check the existence of a VM object during page invalidation, which allows local users to cause a denial of service crash by calling msync on an unaccessed memory map created with MAPANON and MAPNOSYNC flags...