Group Permission Vulnerability in FreeBSD 4.x and Earlier: Unauthorized Access to Wheel Group Files via inetd ident Server

CVE-2001-0196 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

inetd ident server in FreeBSD 4.x and earlier does not properly set group permissions, which allows remote attackers to read the first 16 bytes of files that are accessible by the wheel group.

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