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CVE-2002-0820

HIGH CVSS: 7.2 Published: 2002-08-12 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

FreeBSD kernel 4.6 and earlier closes the file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 after they have already been assigned to /dev/null when the descriptors reference procfs or linprocfs, which could allow local users to reuse the file descriptors in a setuid or setgid program to modify critical data and gain privileges.

Affected Platforms

Freebsd Freebsd

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References