CVE-2002-0572

N/A
Published: June 11, 2002 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:57 PM UTC
4 products affected across 4 vendorsSolarisFreeBSDSunos

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, and possibly other BSD-based operating systems, allows local users to write to or read from restricted files by closing the file descriptors 0 (standard input), 1 (standard output), or 2 (standard error), which may then be reused by a called setuid process that intended to perform I/O on normal files.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

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References (9)

Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploitPatchVendor Advisory
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/268970
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resourcex_refsource_CIAC
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/m-072.shtml
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/809347
VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.osvdb.org/6095

CVSS

Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
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