CVE-2002-0572

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Summary

CVECVE-2002-0572
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2002-07-03 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionFreeBSD 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.2 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.4 releng All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.5 release All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.5 stable All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 2.0 All All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 2.1 All All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 2.2 All All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 2.3 All All All
Operating System Sun Solaris 2.5.1 All x86 All
Operating System Sun Solaris 2.6 All All All
Operating System Sun Solaris 7.0 All x86 All
Operating System Sun Solaris 8.0 All x86 All
Operating System Sun Sunos - All All All
Operating System Sun Sunos 5.5.1 All All All
Operating System Sun Sunos 5.7 All All All
Operating System Sun Sunos 5.8 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ISS X-Force Database: bsd-suid-apps-gain-privileges (8920): Multiple BSD suid programs can be used to gain elevated privileges af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.iss.net
SecurityFocus HOME Mailing List: BugTraq af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 online.securityfocus.com Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
CERT/CC Vulnerability Note VU#809347 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
www.osvdb.org/6095 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
BSD exec C Library Standard I/O File Descriptor Closure Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:23.stdio.asc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.freebsd.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
M-072: FreeBSD stdio File Descriptors Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ciac.org
SecurityFocus HOME Mailing List: BugTraq af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 online.securityfocus.com
Neohapsis Archives - VulnWatch - [VulnWatch] Pine Internet Advisory: Setuid application execution may give local root in FreeBSD - From patrickpine.nl af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 archives.neohapsis.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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