Vulnerability in OpenBSD
CVE-2002-2180
The setitimer(2) system call in OpenBSD 2.0 through 3.1 does not properly check certain arguments, which allows local users to write to kernel memory and possibly gain root privileges, possibly via an integer signedness error.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.006 (47.3th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 47th percentile — 47.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- OpenBSD — versions 2.0, 2.1, 2.2
References
- www.openbsd.org/plus32.html (Exploit, vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.iss.net/security_center/static/10278.php (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/5861 (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)