CVE-2002-0572

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2002-07-03 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

FreeBSD: 4.4-releng, 4.5-release, 4.5-stable
OpenBSD: 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Sun Solaris: 2.5.1, 2.6, 7.0, 8.0
Sunos: 5.5.1, 5.7, 5.8

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0033.html
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/268970
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/269102
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/m-072.shtml
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8920.php
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/809347
http://www.osvdb.org/6095
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4568
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0033.html
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/268970

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