Privilege Escalation via Debugger Attachment in OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD

Privilege Escalation via Debugger Attachment in OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD

CVE-2002-2092 · LOW Severity

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

Race condition in exec in OpenBSD 4.0 and earlier, NetBSD 1.5.2 and earlier, and FreeBSD 4.4 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges by attaching a debugger to a process before the kernel has determined that the process is setuid or setgid.

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