Access Restriction Bypass Affecting freebsd package, versions [5.1,5.2.1]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2383013
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Mar 2004
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Mar 2004

CVE-2004-0099  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for freebsd.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass mksnap_ffs in FreeBSD 5.1 and 5.2 only sets the snapshot flag when creating a snapshot for a file system, which causes default values for other flags to be used, possibly disabling security-critical settings and allowing a local user to bypass intended access restrictions.

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