CVE-2003-0740

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

Stunnel 4.00, and 3.24 and earlier, leaks a privileged file descriptor returned by listen(), which allows local users to hijack the Stunnel server.

Stunnel 4.00, and 3.24 and earlier, leaks a privileged file descriptor returned by listen(), which allows local users to hijack the Stunnel server.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Stunnel

First reported 21 years ago

2003-10-20 04:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:37:00

Affected Software

Stunnel 3.3

3.3

Stunnel 3.4a

3.4a

Stunnel 3.7

3.7

Stunnel 3.8

3.8

Stunnel 3.9

3.9

Stunnel 3.10

3.10

Stunnel 3.11

3.11

Stunnel 3.12

3.12

Stunnel 3.13

3.13

Stunnel 3.14

3.14

Stunnel 3.15

3.15

Stunnel 3.16

3.16

Stunnel 3.17

3.17

Stunnel 3.18

3.18

Stunnel 3.19

3.19

Stunnel 3.20

3.20

Stunnel 3.21

3.21

Stunnel 3.21a

3.21a

Stunnel 3.21b

3.21b

Stunnel 3.21c

3.21c

Stunnel 3.22

3.22

Stunnel 3.24

3.24

Stunnel 4.0

4.0

References

CLA-2003:736

20030903 Stunnel-3.x Daemon Hijacking

MDKSA-2003:108

RHSA-2003:297

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