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CVE-2002-2188

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 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: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

OpenBSD before 3.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via a call to getrlimit(2) with invalid arguments, possibly due to an integer signedness error.

Affected products

• OpenBSD: 3.0, 3.1

References

• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10572.php
• http://www.openbsd.org/errata30.html#kernresource
• http://www.openbsd.org/errata31.html#kernresource
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6124
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10572.php
• http://www.openbsd.org/errata30.html#kernresource
• http://www.openbsd.org/errata31.html#kernresource
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6124

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