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CVE-2002-2180

CVE-2002-2180

EPSS 0.6%
The setitimer(2) system call in OpenBSD 2.0 through 3.1 does not properly check certain arguments, which allows local users to write to kernel memory and possibly gain root privileges, possibly via an integer signedness error.
Affected products
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References
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/032_kerntime.patchhttp://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10278.phphttp://www.openbsd.org/plus32.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5861