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
- Richard_gooch Simpleinit — versions 2.0.2
- N/a — versions n/a
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)