CVE-2002-1915 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.5 Published 28 Jun 2005 Updated 17 Sep 2024

Local users can cause a denial of service by locking the accounting log file, preventing execution of the tip command on BSD systems.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2002-1915?

CVE-2002-1915 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Freebsd Freebsd, published on 28 Jun 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

tip on multiple BSD-based operating systems allows local users to cause a denial of service (execution prevention) by using flock() to lock the /var/log/acculog file.

Weakness: CWE-667

Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-1915?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Freebsd Freebsd, Netbsd Netbsd, Openbsd Openbsd.

How do I fix CVE-2002-1915?

No fix has been published for CVE-2002-1915 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2002-1915 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-1915 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-4rm4-8m7j-xwx3.