7.2
CVSSv2

CVE-2002-0572

Published: 03/07/2002 Updated: 30/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 725
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

FreeBSD 4.5 and previous versions, and possibly other BSD-based operating systems, allows local users to write to or read from restricted files by closing the file descriptors 0 (standard input), 1 (standard output), or 2 (standard error), which may then be reused by a called setuid process that intended to perform I/O on normal files.

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Exploits

/* source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/4568/info It has been reported that BSD-based kernels do not check to ensure that the C library standard I/O file descriptors 0-2 are valid open files before exec()ing setuid images Consequently, I/O that are opened by a setuid process may be assigned file descriptors equivelent to those used by the C l ...