Privilege Escalation via systrace_exit Function

CVE-2004-2012 · HIGH Severity

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

The systrace_exit function in the systrace utility for NetBSD-current and 2.0 before April 16, 2004, and certain FreeBSD ports, does not verify the owner of the /dec/systrace connection before setting euid to 0, which allows local users to gain root privileges.

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