CVE-2002-0572

FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, and possibly other BSD-based operating systems, allows local users to write to or read from restricted files by closing the file descriptors 0 (standard input), 1 (standard output), or 2 (standard error), which may then be reused by a called setuid process that intended to perform I/O on normal files.

CVSS v2.0 NVD

7.2 HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

1.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 75th percentile

Published

2002-06-11

Updated

2024-08-08

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/21407

Security advisories

• http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/268970
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4568
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/809347

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry