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CVE-2002-2180

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.8 Published: 2002-12-31 Modified: 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 Platforms

Openbsd Openbsd

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References