CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2002-2180

Published: Dec 31, 2002 | Modified: Sep 05, 2008
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The setitimer(2) system call in OpenBSD 2.0 through 3.1 does not properly check certain arguments, which allows local users to write to kernel memory and possibly gain root privileges, possibly via an integer signedness error.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openbsd Openbsd 2.0 (including) 2.0 (including)
Openbsd Openbsd 2.1 (including) 2.1 (including)
Openbsd Openbsd 2.2 (including) 2.2 (including)
Openbsd Openbsd 2.3 (including) 2.3 (including)
Openbsd Openbsd 2.4 (including) 2.4 (including)
Openbsd Openbsd 2.5 (including) 2.5 (including)
Openbsd Openbsd 2.6 (including) 2.6 (including)
Openbsd Openbsd 2.7 (including) 2.7 (including)
Openbsd Openbsd 2.8 (including) 2.8 (including)
Openbsd Openbsd 2.9 (including) 2.9 (including)
Openbsd Openbsd 3.0 (including) 3.0 (including)
Openbsd Openbsd 3.1 (including) 3.1 (including)

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