CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2002-0767

Published: Aug 12, 2002 | Modified: Sep 05, 2008
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

simpleinit on Linux systems does not close a read/write FIFO file descriptor before creating a child process, which allows the child process to cause simpleinit to execute arbitrary programs with root privileges.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Simpleinit Richard_gooch 2.0.2 2.0.2

References