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FreeBSD/amd64 'swapgs' Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

FreeBSD/amd64 is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability.

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

FreeBSD/amd64 6.3 and 7.0 are vulnerable to this issue; fixes are available.