CVE-2002-2180 Information

Description

The setitimer(2) system call in OpenBSD 2.0 through 3.1 does not properly check certain arguments which allows local users to write to kernel memory and possibly gain root privileges possibly via an integer signedness error.

Reference

ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/032_kerntime.patch http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10278.php http://www.openbsd.org/plus32.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5861