CVE-2002-0767

published 2002-08-12

CVE-2002-0767: 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…

Priority P4 28 high 7.2 CVSS 2.0

AV L AC L Au N C C I C A C

EXPLOIT

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.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
richard_gooch	simpleinit	—	—

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