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Unscored CVE-2002-1667 EUVD-2002-1648GHSA-vq6h-p287-jxff

The virtual memory management system in FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE and earlier does not properly check the existence of a VM object during page in…

Published Jun 21, 2005 · Updated Aug 8, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

The virtual memory management system in FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE and earlier does not properly check the existence of a VM object during page invalidation, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by calling msync on an unaccessed memory map created with MAP_ANON and MAP_NOSYNC flags.

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