CVE-2002-0766

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Summary

CVECVE-2002-0766
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2002-08-12 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionOpenBSD 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.

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 Openbsd Openbsd 2.9 All All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 3.0 All All All
Operating System Openbsd Openbsd 3.1 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
OpenBSD 3.2 errata af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openbsd.org
www.osvdb.org/5715 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
SecurityFocus HOME Mailing List: BugTraq af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 online.securityfocus.com
www.osvdb.org/5114 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
Multiple Vendor exec C Library Standard I/O File Descriptor Race Condition Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
ISS X-Force Database: openbsd-file-descriptor-dos (9048): OpenBSD file descriptor denial of service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.iss.net Patch, Vendor Advisory
CERT/CC Vulnerability Note VU#314963 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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