Security Advisory

CVE-2005-2218

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-07-26 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 22:22:47
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The device file system (devfs) in FreeBSD 5.x does not properly check parameters of the node type when creating a device node, which makes hidden devices available to attackers, who can then bypass restrictions on a jailed process.