Linux Exploitation
FreeBSD 9.0 < 9.1 - 'mmap/ptrace' Local Privilege Escalation
FreeBSD could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by insufficient permission checks within the virtual memory system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specific memory mapping and tracing operations to modify portions of the traced process’s address space. The vm_map_lookup function in sys/vm/vm_map.c Read more…