CVE-2010-2693

CVE-2010-2693 affects FreeBSD 7.1–8.1-PRERELEASE where the read-only flag is not copied when duplicating an mbuf buffer reference. This can allow a local attacker to cause data corruption via sendfile(2) on the loopback path and potentially escalate privileges by corrupting system files. The issu...

FreeBSD-SA-10:07.mbuf

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-10:07.mbuf Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Lost mbuf flag resulting in data corruption Category: core Module: kern Announced: 2010-07-13 Credits: Min...