CVE-2002-0820
N/A
Published: August 2, 2002 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:58 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFreeBSD
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (4)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSD
Source: [email protected]
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:23.stdio.ascMailing Listx_refsource_VULNWATCHVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q3/0047.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102979180524452&w=2Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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