Race condition vulnerability in UFS and EXT2FS file systems in FreeBSD 4.2 and earlier

Race condition vulnerability in UFS and EXT2FS file systems in FreeBSD 4.2 and earlier

CVE-2001-0371 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Race condition in the UFS and EXT2FS file systems in FreeBSD 4.2 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, makes deleted data available to user processes before it is zeroed out, which allows a local user to access otherwise restricted information.

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