Vulnerability in Openbsd
CVE-2002-0766
OpenBSD 2.9 through 3.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) and gain root privileges by filling the kernel's file descriptor table and closing file descriptors 0, 1, or 2 before executing a privileged process, which is not properly handled when OpenBSD fails to open an alternate descriptor.
EPSS: 0.006 (44.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Openbsd — versions 2.9, 3.0, 3.1
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_OPENBSD)