CVE-2002-2188 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.9 Published 16 Nov 2005 Updated 17 Sep 2024

Local attackers can crash the OpenBSD kernel by calling getrlimit with invalid arguments, causing a denial of service.

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-2002-2188?

CVE-2002-2188 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Openbsd Openbsd, published on 16 Nov 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

OpenBSD before 3.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via a call to getrlimit(2) with invalid arguments, possibly due to an integer signedness error.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-2188?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Openbsd Openbsd.

How do I fix CVE-2002-2188?

No fix has been published for CVE-2002-2188 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-2002-2188 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-2188 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-4wjq-73v9-h88f.