CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-0114

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2004-03-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-03-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

The shmat system call in the System V Shared Memory interface for FreeBSD 5.2 and earlier, NetBSD 1.3 and earlier, and OpenBSD 2.6 and earlier, does not properly decrement a shared memory segment's reference count when the vm_map_find function fails, which could allow local users to gain read or write access to a portion of kernel memory and gain privileges.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd (<= 5.2) • netbsd netbsd (<= 1.3) • openbsd openbsd (<= 2.6)

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-911 Improper Update of Reference Count weakness

References