CVE
- Id
- 4963
- CVE No.
- CVE-2002-0572
- Status
- Candidate
- Description
- FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, 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.
- Phase
- Modified (20051217)
- Votes
- ACCEPT(2) Baker, Cole | MODIFY(1) Frech | NOOP(4) Christey, Cox, Foat, Wall
- Comments
- Frech> XF:bsd-suid-apps-gain-privileges(8920) | Christey> BSA? Nope. BSD. | Take a closer look at XF:bsd-suid-apps-gain-privileges(8920), | which also references CVE-2002-0820. | Christey> Other OSes besides FreeBSD are affected. | | HP:SSRT0845U | URL:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104800750626108&w=2 | Need to more closely examine the relationship between | CVE-2002-0820 and CVE-2002-0572, especially with respect to | references. | Christey> CERT-VN:VU#809347 | URL:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/809347 | HP:SSRT0845U | URL:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104800750626108&w=2