CVEvulnerability
CVE-2002-1420
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2003-04-11
- 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
Integer signedness error in select() on OpenBSD 3.1 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory via a negative value for the size parameter, which satisfies the boundary check as a signed integer, but is later used as an unsigned integer during a data copying operation.
Affected configurations
• openbsd openbsd 3.0
• openbsd openbsd 3.1
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102918817012863&w=2 marc.info
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9809.php Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/259787 US Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/7554 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5442 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102918817012863&w=2 marc.info
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9809.php Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/259787 US Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/7554 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5442 Patch, Vendor Advisory