CVE-2008-3890

CVE-2008-3890 affects FreeBSD/amd64 kernels (6.3–7.0) where an extra swapgs can execute after a General Protection Fault during return from an interrupt, trap, or system call, enabling local privilege escalation. The issue is documented in FreeBSD SA-08:07 (amd64) with patches and upgrade guidanc...

FreeBSD Security Advisory (FreeBSD-SA-08:07.amd64.asc)

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory FreeBSD-SA-08:07.amd64.asc ADV FreeBSD-SA-08:07.amd64.asc OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from ADV FreeBSD-SA-08:07.amd64.asc Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-So...