42200Third-party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/42200 CVE-2010-4210
HIGH
FreeBSD - 'pseudofs' Null Pointer Dereference Privilege Escalation
Record summary
CVE-2010-4210 has a selected CVSS score of 7.8 (high); EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.
Description
The pfs_getextattr function in FreeBSD 7.x before 7.3-RELEASE and 8.x before 8.0-RC1 unlocks a mutex that was not previously locked, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic), overwrite arbitrary memory locations, and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to opening a file on a file system that uses pseudofs.
Description source: CVE List
Exploitation context
Available material
- Catalogued exploits
- 1
Proofs of concept
1Catalogued exploits
ExploitDBFreeBSD - 'pseudofs' Null Pointer Dereference Privilege EscalationExploitDB exploitby Babcia PadlinaNot analyzed1 file
References
7FreeBSD-SA-10:09Vendor advisory
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-10:09.pseudofs.asc 1024724vdb entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024724 ADV-2010-2956vdb entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2956 freebsd-pfsgetextattr-dos(63218)vdb entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/63218 nvd.nist.gov
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4210 15206exploit
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15206