CVE
- Id
- 5157
- CVE No.
- CVE-2002-0767
- Status
- Candidate
- Description
- simpleinit on Linux systems does not close a read/write FIFO file descriptor before creating a child process, which allows the child process to cause simpleinit to execute arbitrary programs with root privileges.
- Phase
- Proposed (20020726)
- Votes
- NOOP(5) Armstrong, Cole, Cox, Foat, Wall
- Comments