Vulnerability in Freebsd

CVE-2008-0777

The sendfile system call in FreeBSD 5.5 through 7.0 does not check the access flags of the file descriptor used for sending a file, which allows local users to read the contents of write-only files.

EPSS: 0.004 (33.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Freebsd — versions 5.5, 6.2, 6.3
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References