6.2med

CVE-2001-11851 exploit

Some AIO operations in FreeBSD 4.4 may be delayed until after a call to execve, which could allow a local user to overwrite memory of the n…

Published 24 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
6.2
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.8%
percentile 57%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Some AIO operations in FreeBSD 4.4 may be delayed until after a call to execve, which could allow a local user to overwrite memory of the new process and gain privileges.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.81% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 57% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-21176 FreeBSD 4.4 - AIO Library Cross Process Memory Write · local · 2001-12-10

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD2.06.2AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

  • iss.net /security_center/static/7693.php · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /archive/1/244583 · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/3661 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • osvdb.org /2001 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_OSVDB, x_transferred

Sources

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