CVE-2002-0766
N/A
Published: April 2, 2003 at 05:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:58 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorOpenBSD
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%
Description
OpenBSD 2.9 through 3.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) and gain root privileges by filling the kernel's file descriptor table and closing file descriptors 0, 1, or 2 before executing a privileged process, which is not properly handled when OpenBSD fails to open an alternate descriptor.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (7)
Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/271702VDB Entryx_refsource_XFPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9048.phpThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
Source: [email protected]
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/314963Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_OPENBSD
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html#fdalloc2Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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