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Affected packages
9.0	<=	FreeBSD	<	9.1_4

Details

VuXML ID	abef280d-d829-11e2-b71c-8c705af55518
Discovery	2013-06-18
Entry	2013-06-18
Modified	2016-08-09

Due to insufficient permission checks in the virtual memory system, a tracing process (such as a debugger) may be able to modify portions of the traced process's address space to which the traced process itself does not have write access.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2013-2171
FreeBSD Advisory	SA-13:06.mmap