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CVE-2002-2180

Medium
6.8/10

Summary

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.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • SINGLE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published