>> FreeBSD AMD64 General Protection Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Title : FreeBSD AMD64 General Protection Privilege Escalation Vulnerability VUPEN 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
Technical Description
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.
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