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Title : FreeBSD AMD64 General Protection Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2498
CVE ID : CVE-2008-3890
CWE ID : CWE-264
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-09-05

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A vulnerability has been identified in FreeBSD, which could be exploited by malicious users to gain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by an error when a General Protection Fault occurs while the kernel is returning from an interrupt, trap or system call while manipulating stack frames, which could allow local attackers to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Nate Eldredge.

ChangeLog

2008-09-05 : Initial release

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