CVE-2004-2012 Information

Description

The systrace_exit function in the systrace utility for NetBSD-current and 2.0 before April 16 2004 and certain FreeBSD ports does not verify the owner of the /dec/systrace connection before setting euid to 0 which allows local users to gain root privileges.

Reference

ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2004-007.txt.asc http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108432258920570&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/11585 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10320 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16110