CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0572

7.2 HIGH Published 2002-07-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-07-03
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

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.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd 4.4 • freebsd freebsd 4.5 • openbsd openbsd 2.0 • openbsd openbsd 2.1 • openbsd openbsd 2.2 • openbsd openbsd 2.3 • sun solaris 2.5.1 • sun solaris 2.6 • sun solaris 7.0 • sun solaris 8.0 • sun sunos • sun sunos 5.5.1 • sun sunos 5.7 • sun sunos 5.8

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