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FreeBSD : SA-04:11.msync

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Check for the version of FreeBSD

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is running a version of FreeBSD which contains a
programming error in the msync(2) system call which may let a local user with
read access to a given file to forbid any change to this file to be written
to disk.

Solution : http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/1db1ed59-af07-11d8-acb9-000d610a3b12.html
Network Security Threat Level: Low

Networks Security ID: 10416

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2004 Tenable Network Security

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