Vulnerability in Richard Gooch Simpleinit

CVE-2002-0767

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.

EPSS: 0.014 (70.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

References

  • cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory, x_refsource_XF)
  • cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, Patch)