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CVE-2004-0435

Severity Low
Score 3.6/10

Summary

Certain "programming errors" in the msync system call for FreeBSD 5.2.1 and earlier, and 4.10 and earlier, do not properly handle the MS_INVALIDATE operation, which leads to cache consistency problems that allow a local user to prevent certain changes to files from being committed to disk.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published