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>> FreeBSD "nmount" Buffer Overflow Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Title : FreeBSD "nmount" Buffer Overflow Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2499
CVE ID : CVE-2008-3531
CWE ID : CWE-119
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 a buffer overflow error when processing user-supplied arguments passed to the "nmount" system call, which could be exploited by local attackers to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by James Gritton.

ChangeLog

2008-09-05 : Initial release

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