CVEvulnerability
CVE-2002-0767
7.2 HIGH
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- 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
simpleinit on Linux systems does not close a read/write FIFO file descriptor before creating a child process, which allows the child process to cause simpleinit to execute arbitrary programs with root privileges.
Affected configurations
• richard gooch simpleinit 2.0.2
References
- http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/276739 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9357.php Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5001 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/276739 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9357.php Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5001 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory