CVE-2002-0767: Richard Gooch Simpleinit

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

simpleinit on Linux systems does not close a read/write FIFO file descriptor before creating a child process, which allows the child process to cause simpleinit to execute arbitrary programs with root privileges.

Affected products

• Richard Gooch Simpleinit: version 2.0.2 only

Published 2002-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.