FreeBSD kernel privilege escalation updated since 13.06.2012
Published:		25.06.2012
Source:		BUGTRAQ
SecurityVulns ID:		12411
Type:		local
Level:		6/10
Description:		Privilege escalation on susret on some CPUs.

Affected:		FREEBSD : FreeBSD 7.4
		FREEBSD : FreeBSD 9.0
		FREEBSD : FreeBSD 8.3
CVE:		CVE-2012-0217 (The User Mode Scheduler in the kernel in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and R2 SP1 and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 on the Intel x64 platform does not properly handle system requests, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "User Mode Scheduler Memory Corruption Vulnerability.")

Original document		FREEBSD, FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-12:04.sysret [REVISED] (25.06.2012)
		FREEBSD, CVE-2012-0217 (13.06.2012)

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