PT-2004-1572 · Freebsd · Freebsd

Published 2004-06-03 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2004-0435

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

3.6

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FreeBSD versions prior to 5.2.1 FreeBSD versions 4.10 and earlier

Description The issue arises from certain programming errors in the msync system call, specifically with handling the MS INVALIDATE operation. This leads to cache consistency problems, allowing a local user to prevent certain file changes from being committed to disk.

Recommendations For versions prior to 5.2.1, update to a version that properly handles the MS INVALIDATE operation in the msync system call. For versions 4.10 and earlier, update to a version that properly handles the MS INVALIDATE operation in the msync system call.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2004-0435

Affected Products

Freebsd

References · 5

• ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:11.msync.asc · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0435 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/10416 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/11714 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16254 · Note