CVE-2001-1185 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2002-06-25

Score: 6.2 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2001-1166	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity High

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00397.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7693.php
http://www.osvdb.org/2001
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/244583
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3661

History

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Subscriptions

Freebsd Freebsd

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-06-25T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:44:08.308Z

Reserved: 2002-03-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2001-1185

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-12-10T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2001-1185

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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