Vulnerabilities > CVE-2001-0371 - Unspecified vulnerability in Freebsd

047910
CVSS 6.2 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
local
high complexity
freebsd

Summary

Race condition in the UFS and EXT2FS file systems in FreeBSD 4.2 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, makes deleted data available to user processes before it is zeroed out, which allows a local user to access otherwise restricted information.