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CVE-2002-2180

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The setitimer(2) system call in OpenBSD 2.0 through 3.1 does not properly check certain arguments, which allows local users to write to kernel memory and possibly gain root privileges, possibly via an integer signedness error.

Affected products

• OpenBSD: 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 (+6)

References

• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10278.php
• http://www.openbsd.org/plus32.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5861
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10278.php
• http://www.openbsd.org/plus32.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5861

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