CVE-2015-5675

The CVE-2015-5675 entry describes a Local Privilege Escalation/DoS in FreeBSD kernels due to the sys_amd64 IRET Handler. Affected: FreeBSD 9.3 and 10.1. Root cause: a mis-handling of IRET exceptions (#SS, #NP) in the kernel, which can allow a local user to gain privileges or trigger a kernel pani...

FreeBSD-SA-15:21.amd64

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-15:21.amd64 Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Local privilege escalation in IRET handler Category: core Module: sysamd64 Announced: 2015-08-25...