Unscored CVE-2002-0829 EUVD-2002-0821GHSA-w9xf-9h4j-j3jh

Integer overflow in the Berkeley Fast File System (FFS) in FreeBSD 4.6.1 RELEASE-p4 and earlier allows local users to access arbitrary file…

Published Apr 2, 2003 · Updated Aug 8, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Integer overflow in the Berkeley Fast File System (FFS) in FreeBSD 4.6.1 RELEASE-p4 and earlier allows local users to access arbitrary file contents within FFS to gain privileges by creating a file that is larger than allowed by the virtual memory system.

References

5399 vdb-entry
FreeBSD-SA-02:35.ffs vendor-advisory
5073 vdb-entry
freebsd-ffs-integer-overflow(9771) vdb-entry