CVE-2002-0766 Information

Description

OpenBSD 2.9 through 3.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) and gain root privileges by filling the kernel’s file descriptor table and closing file descriptors 0 1 or 2 before executing a privileged process which is not properly handled when OpenBSD fails to open an alternate descriptor.

Reference

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/271702 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9048.php http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/314963 http://www.openbsd.org/errata.htmlfdalloc2 http://www.osvdb.org/5114 http://www.osvdb.org/5715 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4708