Security Advisory

CVE-2002-2180

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-11-16 21:17:00

Last updated 2024-09-16 18:12:53

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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