Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in FreeBSD 4.4 AIO Operations

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in FreeBSD 4.4 AIO Operations

CVE-2001-1185 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Some AIO operations in FreeBSD 4.4 may be delayed until after a call to execve, which could allow a local user to overwrite memory of the new process and gain privileges.

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