CVE-2008-0777

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

15/02/2008

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

4.90

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:5.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:7.0:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:5.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:7.0:::::::*

CVE-2008-0777

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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