Description
Stunnel 4.00, and 3.24 and earlier, leaks a privileged file descriptor returned by listen(), which allows local users to hijack the Stunnel server.
Published: 2003-09-04
Score: 4.6 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2003-0731 Stunnel 4.00, and 3.24 and earlier, leaks a privileged file descriptor returned by listen(), which allows local users to hijack the Stunnel server.
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Redhat Enterprise Linux Linux
Stunnel Stunnel
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T02:05:12.501Z

Reserved: 2003-09-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2003-0740

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2003-10-20T04:00:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2003-0740

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2003-09-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2003-0740 - Bugzilla

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