Vulnerability in Freebsd

CVE-2002-0820

FreeBSD kernel 4.6 and earlier closes the file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 after they have already been assigned to /dev/null when the descriptors reference procfs or linprocfs, which could allow local users to reuse the file descriptors in a setuid or setgid program to modify critical data and gain privileges.

EPSS: 0.004 (33.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Freebsd — versions 4.6
  • N/a — versions n/a

References