Access Restriction Bypass Affecting freebsd package, versions [5.5,7.0]


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-2383079
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Feb 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Feb 2008

CVE-2008-0777  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (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. The sendfile system call in FreeBSD 5.5 through 7.0 does not check the access flags of the file descriptor used for sending a file, which allows local users to read the contents of write-only files.

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