CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0766

7.2 HIGH Published 2002-08-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-08-12
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

OpenBSD 2.9 through 3.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) and gain root privileges by filling the kernel's file descriptor table and closing file descriptors 0, 1, or 2 before executing a privileged process, which is not properly handled when OpenBSD fails to open an alternate descriptor.

Affected configurations

• openbsd openbsd 2.9 • openbsd openbsd 3.0 • openbsd openbsd 3.1

References