FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, and possibly other BSD-based operating systems, allows local users to write to or read from restricted files by closing the file descriptors 0 (standard input), 1 (standard output), or 2 (standard error), which may then be reused by a called setuid process that intended to perform I/O on normal files.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-06-11T04:00:00

Updated: 2005-12-17T00:00:00

Reserved: 2002-06-11T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2002-0572

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2002-07-03T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2018-10-30T16:26:22.763


Link: CVE-2002-0572

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cve-icon Redhat Information

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