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CVE-2002-0701

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-07-23 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

ktrace in BSD-based operating systems allows the owner of a process with special privileges to trace the process after its privileges have been lowered, which may allow the owner to obtain sensitive information that the process obtained while it was running with the extra privileges.

Affected products

• FreeBSD: 6.2-stable
• OpenBSD: all versions

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102650797504351&w=2
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9474.php
• http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html#ktrace
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5133
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102650797504351&w=2
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9474.php
• http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html#ktrace
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5133

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