Race condition vulnerability in OpenBSD VFS allows local users to cause denial of service (kernel panic)

CVE-2001-1047 · LOW Severity

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

Race condition in OpenBSD VFS allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) by (1) creating a pipe in one thread and causing another thread to set one of the file descriptors to NULL via a close, or (2) calling dup2 on a file descriptor in one process, then setting the descriptor to NULL via a close in another process that is created via rfork.

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