CVE-2003-1234

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Summary

CVECVE-2003-1234
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2003-12-31 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionInteger overflow in the f_count counter in FreeBSD before 4.2 through 5.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via multiple calls to (1) fpathconf and (2) lseek, which do not properly decrement f_count through a call to fdrop.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 3.6 from [email protected]

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

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

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

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

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 1.1.5.1 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 2.1.0 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 2.1.5 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 2.1.6 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 2.1.6.1 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 2.1.7 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 2.1.7.1 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 2.2 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 2.2 current All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 2.2.1 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 2.2.2 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 2.2.3 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 2.2.4 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 2.2.5 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 2.2.6 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 2.2.7 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 2.2.8 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 3.1 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 3.2 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 3.3 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 3.4 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 3.5 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 3.5.1 release All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.10 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.10 release All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.10 release_p8 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.10 releng All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.11 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.11 release_p3 All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.11 releng All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.11 stable All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.2 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.3 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.3 release All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.4 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.5 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.5 release All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.6 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.6 release All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.7 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.7 release All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.9 releng All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 5.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Secunia - Advisories - FreeBSD integer overflow af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Neohapsis Archives - VulnWatch - [VulnWatch] PDS: Integer overflow in FreeBSD kernel - From joost_at_pine.nl af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 archives.neohapsis.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Neohapsis Archives - Bugtraq - FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:44.filedesc - From security-advisories_at_freebsd.org af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 archives.neohapsis.com Patch
FreeBSD System Call f_count Integer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch
Computest neemt Pine Digital Security over - Computest af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.pine.nl
ISS X-Force Database:freebsd-kernel-integer-overflow(10993): FreeBSD kernel f_count integer overflow af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.iss.net Patch
ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:44.filedesc.asc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.freebsd.org Vendor Advisory
FreeBSD Kernel Integer Overflow May Let Local Users Deny Service, Gain Elevated Privileges, or View Files on the System - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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