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1 vulnerability by richard_gooch
CVE-2002-0767 (GCVE-0-2002-0767)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2002-07-26 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 03:03
VLAI?
Summary
simpleinit on Linux systems does not close a read/write FIFO file descriptor before creating a child process, which allows the child process to cause simpleinit to execute arbitrary programs with root privileges.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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