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CVE-2002-0767

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CVE-2002-0767

Published: Jul 26, 2002

Modified: Aug 8, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

simpleinit on Linux systems does not close a read/write FIFO file descriptor before creating a child process, which allows the child process to cause simpleinit to execute arbitrary programs with root privileges.

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References

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