Security Advisory
CVE-2002-1500
CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations
Description
Buffer overflow in (1) mrinfo, (2) mtrace, and (3) pppd in NetBSD 1.4.x through 1.6 allows local users to gain privileges by executing the programs after filling the file descriptor tables, which produces file descriptors larger than FD_SETSIZE, which are not checked by FD_SET().