CVE-2004-2012

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

The systrace_exit function in the systrace utility for NetBSD-current and 2.0 before April 16, 2004, and certain FreeBSD ports, does not verify the owner of the /dec/systrace connection before setting euid to 0, which allows local users to gain root privileges.

The systrace_exit function in the systrace utility for NetBSD-current and 2.0 before April 16, 2004, and certain FreeBSD ports, does not verify the owner of the /dec/systrace connection before setting euid to 0, which allows local users to gain root privileges.

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

First reported 20 years ago

2004-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:31:00

Affected Software

NetBSD 2.0

2.0

References

NetBSD-SA2004-007

20040510 Advisory 04/2004: Net(Free)BSD Systrace local root vulnerabilitiy

11585

10320

Exploit

systrace-gain-privileges(16110)

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