CVE-2004-0435 Information

Description

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.

Reference

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:11.msync.asc http://secunia.com/advisories/11714 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10416 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16254