BSD - SHMAT System Call Privilege Escalation

BSD - SHMAT System Call Privilege Escalation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9586/info A vulnerability has been reported to reside in the 'shmat' system call used in the BSD kernel. Exploiting this issue may allow a local attacker to inject instructions into the memory of a privileged...

shmat reference counting bug

A programming error in the shmat2 system call can result in a shared memory segment's reference count being erroneously incremented. It may be possible to cause a shared memory segment to reference unallocated kernel memory, but remain valid. This could allow a local attacker to gain read or writ...