CVE-2001-1185 Information

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.

Reference

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