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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 3, 2002· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2002-0572

CVE-2002-0572

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.

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Affected products

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  • FreeBSD/FreeBSD4 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.4:releng:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 3 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.4:releng:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.5:release:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.5:stable:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: <=4.5
  • OpenBSD/OpenBSD4 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 3 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • Sun Corporation/Solaris4 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:2.5.1:*:x86:*:*:*:*:*+ 3 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:2.5.1:*:x86:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:7.0:*:x86:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:8.0:*:x86:*:*:*:*:*
  • Sun Corporation/Sunos4 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 3 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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