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CVE-2002-2180

CVE information

Published

21 years ago

Last Modified

15 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
6.8/10
Exploit Score
3.1/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
Single
Impact Score
10/10
Confidentiality Impact
Complete
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
Complete

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -