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CVE-2002-1915

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
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: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-667

Description

tip on multiple BSD-based operating systems allows local users to cause a denial of service (execution prevention) by using flock() to lock the /var/log/acculog file.

Affected products

FreeBSD: 3.5, 3.5.1, 4.0, 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.2 (+5)
Netbsd: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.3, 1.3.1 (+9)
OpenBSD: 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 (+6)

References

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