CVE-2002-1500

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Buffer overflow in (1) mrinfo, (2) mtrace, and (3) pppd in NetBSD 1.4.x through 1.6 allows local users to gain privileges by executing the programs after filling the file descriptor tables, which produces file descriptors larger than FD_SETSIZE, which are not checked by FD_SET().

Buffer overflow in (1) mrinfo, (2) mtrace, and (3) pppd in NetBSD 1.4.x through 1.6 allows local users to gain privileges by executing the programs after filling the file descriptor tables, which produces file descriptors larger than FD_SETSIZE, which are not checked by FD_SET().

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

NetBSD

First reported 22 years ago

2003-04-02 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:30:00

Affected Software

NetBSD 1.4

1.4

NetBSD 1.4.1

1.4.1

NetBSD 1.4.2

1.4.2

NetBSD 1.4.3

1.4.3

NetBSD 1.5

1.5

NetBSD 1.5.1

1.5.1

NetBSD 1.5.2

1.5.2

NetBSD 1.5.3

1.5.3

References

NetBSD-SA2002-014

netbsd-fdset-bo(10114)

Patch, Vendor Advisory

5727

Patch, Vendor Advisory

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