CVE-2002-0824

Severity

12%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

48%

BSD pppd allows local users to change the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file that is specified as a tty device.

BSD pppd allows local users to change the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file that is specified as a tty device.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 1.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 22 years ago

2002-08-12 04:00:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2020-02-24 15:55:00

Affected Software

Point-to-Point Protocol Project Point-to-Point Protocol

FreeBSD 1.0

1.0

FreeBSD 1.1

1.1

FreeBSD 1.1.5

1.1.5

FreeBSD 1.1.5.1

1.1.5.1

FreeBSD 2.0

2.0

FreeBSD 2.0.5

2.0.5

FreeBSD 2.1.0

2.1.0

FreeBSD 2.1.5

2.1.5

FreeBSD 2.1.6

2.1.6

FreeBSD 2.1.7

2.1.7

FreeBSD 2.2

2.2

FreeBSD 2.2.1

2.2.1

FreeBSD 2.2.2

2.2.2

FreeBSD 2.2.5

2.2.5

FreeBSD 2.2.6

2.2.6

FreeBSD 2.2.7

2.2.7

FreeBSD 2.2.8

2.2.8

FreeBSD 3.0

3.0

FreeBSD 3.1

3.1

FreeBSD 3.2

3.2

FreeBSD 3.3

3.3

FreeBSD 3.4

3.4

FreeBSD 3.5

3.5

FreeBSD 4.0

4.0

FreeBSD 4.1

4.1

FreeBSD 4.1.1

4.1.1

FreeBSD 4.2

4.2

FreeBSD 4.3

4.3

FreeBSD 4.4

4.4

FreeBSD 4.5

4.5

References

NetBSD-SA2002-010

FreeBSD-SA-02:32.pppd

pppd-race-condition(9738)

20020729 011: SECURITY FIX: July 29, 2002

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