Overview
A locally exploitable privilege elevation vulnerability exists in FreeBSD.
Description
A locally exploitable privilege elevation vulnerability exists in FreeBSD. For more information, please see the Pine Internet Security Advisory. |
Impact
A local user can gain root privileges. |
Solution
Please see ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:23.stdio.asc for patch information. |
Vendor Information
809347
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | ||
| Temporal | ||
| Environmental |
References
Acknowledgements
The CERT/CC thanks PINE-CERT for discovering this vulnerability.
This document was written by Ian A. Finlay.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2002-0572 |
| Severity Metric: | 20.25 |
| Date Public: | 2002-04-22 |
| Date First Published: | 2002-08-20 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2002-08-20 18:17 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 16 |