CVE-2001-1185

Severity

62%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

165%

Some AIO operations in FreeBSD 4.4 may be delayed until after a call to execve, which could allow a local user to overwrite memory of the new process and gain privileges.

Some AIO operations in FreeBSD 4.4 may be delayed until after a call to execve, which could allow a local user to overwrite memory of the new process and gain privileges.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 23 years ago

2001-12-10 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:25:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 4.4

4.4

References

bsd-aio-overwrite-memory(7693)

Vendor Advisory

2001

20011210 AIO vulnerability

Vendor Advisory

3661

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

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