Title : FreeBSD "nmount" Buffer Overflow Privilege Escalation Vulnerability VUPEN 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
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 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.
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