# CVE-2002-0572: FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, and possibly other BSD-based operating systems, allows local users to write to or read from restricted files by clo

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB
- Published: 2002-06-11 · Updated: 2024-08-08

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

FreeBSD 4.5 and earlier, and possibly other BSD-based operating systems, allows local users to write to or read from restricted files by closing the file descriptors 0 (standard input), 1 (standard output), or 2 (standard error), which may then be reused by a called setuid process that intended to perform I/O on normal files.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8920.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4568
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/809347
- http://www.osvdb.org/6095
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0033.html
- ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:23.stdio.asc
- http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/m-072.shtml
- http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/268970
- http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/269102
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/21407

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