CVE-2002-0572 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2002-0572

FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, and possibly other BSD-based operating systems,...

Vulnerability Description

FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, and possibly other BSD-based operating systems, allows local users to write to or read from restricted files by closing the file descriptors 0 (standard input), 1 (standard output), or 2 (standard error), which may then be reused by a called setuid process that intended to perform I/O on normal files.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

freebsd, openbsd, solaris, sunos
Vulnerable Versions:
4.4, 4.5, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7.0, 8.0, 5.5.1, 5.7, 5.8

Timeline

Official Publish: June 11th, 2002
Last Modified: August 8th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.