CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-2218
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-07-26
- 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
The device file system (devfs) in FreeBSD 5.x does not properly check parameters of the node type when creating a device node, which makes hidden devices available to attackers, who can then bypass restrictions on a jailed process.
Affected configurations
• freebsd freebsd 5.0
• freebsd freebsd 5.1
• freebsd freebsd 5.2
• freebsd freebsd 5.2.1
• freebsd freebsd 5.3
• freebsd freebsd 5.4
References
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:17.devfs.asc ftp.freebsd.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16145 secunia.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1014536 securitytracker.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/18123 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14334 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21451 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:17.devfs.asc ftp.freebsd.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16145 secunia.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1014536 securitytracker.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/18123 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14334 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21451 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com