Security Advisory

CVE-2002-0767

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2002-07-26 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 03:03:48
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.