Published: 19/12/2000 Updated: 03/05/2018

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

Format string vulnerability in OpenBSD fstat program (and possibly other BSD-based operating systems) allows local users to gain root privileges via the PWD environmental variable.

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source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/1746/info fstat is a program shipped with BSD unix variants that is used to list the open files on a system It is installed sgid kmem so it can access information about open files from the kernel memory structures A user definable environment variable (PWD, parent working directory) is passed as the onl ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1746 ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.7/common/028_format_strings.patch http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=97068555106135&w=2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5338 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20256/

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