CVE-2008-0777

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

The sendfile system call in FreeBSD 5.5 through 7.0 does not check the access flags of the file descriptor used for sending a file, which allows local users to read the contents of write-only files.

The sendfile system call in FreeBSD 5.5 through 7.0 does not check the access flags of the file descriptor used for sending a file, which allows local users to read the contents of write-only files.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N).

Overview

Type

FreeBSD

First reported 17 years ago

2008-02-15 02:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 21:35:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 5.5

5.5

FreeBSD 6.2

6.2

FreeBSD 6.3

6.3

FreeBSD 7.0

7.0

References

28928

Vendor Advisory

FreeBSD-SA-08:03

Patch

1019416

27789

Exploit, Patch

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