FreeBSD Security Advisory (FreeBSD-SA-04:11.msync.asc)

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory FreeBSD-SA-04:11.msync.asc SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

CVE-2004-0435

Certain "programming errors" in the msync system call for FreeBSD 5.2.1 and earlier, and 4.10 and earlier, do not properly handle the MSINVALIDATE operation, which leads to cache consistency problems that allow a local user to prevent certain changes to files from being committed to disk...

CVE-2004-0435

CVE-2004-0435 concerns a vulnerability in FreeBSD where programming errors in the msync(2) implementation, specifically involving the MS_INVALIDATE operation, allow a local user to prevent changes to a file from being written to disk due to cache consistency issues. Affected products include Free...

[Full-Disclosure] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-04:11.msync

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-04:11.msync Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: buffer cache invalidation implementation issues Category: core Module: sys Announced: 2004-05-26 Credits:...