CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2002-1420

Published: Apr 11, 2003 | Modified: Oct 18, 2016
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

Integer signedness error in select() on OpenBSD 3.1 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory via a negative value for the size parameter, which satisfies the boundary check as a signed integer, but is later used as an unsigned integer during a data copying operation.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openbsd Openbsd 3.0 (including) 3.0 (including)
Openbsd Openbsd 3.1 (including) 3.1 (including)

References