CVE-2004-2012

NetBSD/FreeBSD - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

The systrace_exit function in the systrace utility for NetBSD-current and 2.0 before April 16, 2004, and certain FreeBSD ports, does not verify the owner of the /dec/systrace connection before setting euid to 0, which allows local users to gain root privileges.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by Stefan Esser · clocalbsd
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24113

References (5)

Scores

EPSS 0.0031
EPSS Percentile 53.8%

Details

Status published
Products (8)
netbsd/netbsd 2.0
niels/provos_systrace 1.1
niels/provos_systrace 1.2
niels/provos_systrace 1.3
niels/provos_systrace 1.4
niels/provos_systrace 1.5
vladimir_kotal/systrace_port_for_freebsd 2004-03-09
vladimir_kotal/systrace_port_for_freebsd 2004-06-02
Published Dec 31, 2004
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026