CVE-2001-1185

Some AIO operations in FreeBSD 4.4 may be delayed until after a call to execve, which could allow a local user to overwrite memory of the new process and gain privileges.

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.2 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2001-12-10

Last modified

2024-08-08

Affected products

• Freebsd (Freebsd)

References

• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7693.php
• http://www.osvdb.org/2001
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/244583
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3661