reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

[Dan Goodin]

Hello,

Dan Goodin, a reporter at technology news website The Register. Security
researcher Przemyslaw Frasunek says versions 6.x through 6.4 of FreeBSD
has a security bug. He says he notified the FreeBSD Foundation on August
29 and never got a response. We'll be writing a brief article about
this. Please let me know ASAP if someone cares to comment.

Kind regards,

Dan Goodin
415-495-5411

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] FreeBSD <= 6.1 kqueue() NULL pointer
dereference
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:49:33 +0200
From: Przemyslaw Frasunek <venglin at freebsd.lublin.pl>
Organization: frasunek.com
To: full-disclosure at lists.grok.org.uk, bugtraq at securityfocus.com
References: <4A9028AC.9080902 at freebsd.lublin.pl>

Przemyslaw Frasunek pisze:
> FreeBSD <= 6.1 suffers from classical check/use race condition on SMP

There is yet another kqueue related vulnerability. It affects 6.x, up to
6.4-STABLE. FreeBSD security team was notified on 29th Aug, but there is no
response until now, so I won't publish any details.

Sucessful exploitation yields local root and allows to exit from jail.
For now,
you can see demo on:

http://www.vimeo.com/6554787

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