CVE-2002-1125

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

FreeBSD port programs that use libkvm for FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE and earlier, including (1) asmon, (2) ascpu, (3) bubblemon, (4) wmmon, and (5) wmnet2, leave open file descriptors for /dev/mem and /dev/kmem, which allows local users to read kernel memory.

FreeBSD port programs that use libkvm for FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE and earlier, including (1) asmon, (2) ascpu, (3) bubblemon, (4) wmmon, and (5) wmnet2, leave open file descriptors for /dev/mem and /dev/kmem, which allows local users to read kernel memory.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

Type

FreeBSD

First reported 22 years ago

2002-09-24 04:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:23:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 4.2

4.2

FreeBSD 4.3

4.3

FreeBSD 4.4

4.4

FreeBSD 4.5

4.5

FreeBSD 4.6

4.6

References

FreeBSD-SA-02:39

20020916 iDEFENSE Security Advisory 09.16.2002: FreeBSD Ports libkvm Security Vulnerabilities

20020916 iDEFENSE Security Advisory 09.16.2002: FreeBSD Ports libkvm Security Vulnerabilities

bsd-libkvm-descriptor-leak(10109)

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