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