CVE-2002-0766

Description

OpenBSD 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.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4708

http://www.osvdb.org/5715

http://www.osvdb.org/5114

http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html#fdalloc2

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/314963

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9048.php

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/271702

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS