CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-0777
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-02-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The sendfile system call in FreeBSD 5.5 through 7.0 does not check the access flags of the file descriptor used for sending a file, which allows local users to read the contents of write-only files.
Affected configurations
• freebsd freebsd 5.5
• freebsd freebsd 6.2
• freebsd freebsd 6.3
• freebsd freebsd 7.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28928 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-08:03.sendfile.asc Patch
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1019416 securitytracker.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27789 Exploit, Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28928 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-08:03.sendfile.asc Patch
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1019416 securitytracker.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27789 Exploit, Patch