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FreeBSD 9 Address Space Manipulation Privilege Escalation

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FreeBSD 9 Address Space Manipulation Privilege Escalation

Disclosed
06/18/2013
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a vulnerability that can be used to modify portions of a process's address space, which may lead to privilege escalation. Systems such as FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1 are known to be vulnerable.

Author(s)

  • Konstantin Belousov
  • Alan Cox
  • Hunger
  • sinn3r <sinn3r@metasploit.com>

Platform

BSD

Architectures

x86

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

msf > use exploit/freebsd/local/mmap
msf exploit(mmap) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(mmap) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(mmap) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(mmap) > exploit

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