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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2003-04-02T05:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:03:48.644Z

Reserved: 2002-07-25T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2002-0766

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2002-08-12T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2008-09-10T19:12:51.320

Link: CVE-2002-0766

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