CVE-2002-0572

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.

Scoring

CVSS base score
0.01
EPSS probability
0.28%
Published
2002-06-11
Last modified
2026-03-16

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