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Vulnerability Note VU#809347

FreeBSD privilege elevation vulnerability

Overview

A locally exploitable privilege elevation vulnerability exists in FreeBSD.

I. Description

A locally exploitable privilege elevation vulnerability exists in FreeBSD. For more information, please see the Pine Internet Security Advisory.

II. Impact

A local user can gain root privileges.

III. Solution

Please see ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:23.stdio.asc for patch information.

Systems Affected
VendorStatusDate Updated
FreeBSDVulnerable20-Aug-2002

References


ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:23.stdio.asc
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0033.html
http://www.pine.nl/advisories/pine-cert-20020401.txt
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8920.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4568

Credit

The CERT/CC thanks PINE-CERT for discovering this vulnerability.

This document was written by Ian A. Finlay.

Other Information

Date Public04/22/2002
Date First Published08/20/2002 02:16:14 PM
Date Last Updated08/20/2002
CERT Advisory 
CVE NameCVE-2002-0572
US-CERT Technical Alerts 
Metric20.25
Document Revision15

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