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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-06-11T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T02:56:37.369Z

Reserved: 2002-06-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2002-0572

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2002-07-03T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2024-11-20T23:39:23.673

Link: CVE-2002-0572

cve-icon Redhat

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