CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0061

7.2 HIGH Published 2001-02-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-02-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

procfs in FreeBSD and possibly other operating systems does not properly restrict access to per-process mem and ctl files, which allows local users to gain root privileges by forking a child process and executing a privileged process from the child, while the parent retains access to the child's address space.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd 3.5.1 • freebsd freebsd 4.1 • freebsd freebsd 4.1.1 • freebsd freebsd 4.2

References