CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-2180

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2002-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-12-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

The setitimer(2) system call in OpenBSD 2.0 through 3.1 does not properly check certain arguments, which allows local users to write to kernel memory and possibly gain root privileges, possibly via an integer signedness error.

Affected configurations

• openbsd openbsd 2.0 • openbsd openbsd 2.1 • openbsd openbsd 2.2 • openbsd openbsd 2.3 • openbsd openbsd 2.4 • openbsd openbsd 2.5 • openbsd openbsd 2.6 • openbsd openbsd 2.7 • openbsd openbsd 2.8 • openbsd openbsd 2.9 • openbsd openbsd 3.0 • openbsd openbsd 3.1

References