Konstantin Belousov and Alan Cox discovered that insufficient permission checks in the memory management of the FreeBSD kernel could lead to privilege escalation.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 9.0-10+deb70.2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 9.0-12. We recommend that you upgrade your kfreebsd-9 packages.

The FreeBSD kernel is the core of the FreeBSD operating system.

kfreebsd-9 on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2714.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25