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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-4304

Original release date:08/13/2007

Last revised:09/05/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

CerbNG for FreeBSD 4.8 does not properly implement VM protection when attempting to prevent system call wrapper races, which allows local users to have an unknown impact related to an "incorrect write protection of pages".

Description

More information about this vulnerability can be found at: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25259

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:6.2 (MEDIUM) (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 10.0

Exploitability Subscore: 1.9

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Locally exploitable

Access Complexity: High

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

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