CVE-2002-0829: Freebsd

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the Berkeley Fast File System (FFS) in FreeBSD 4.6.1 RELEASE-p4 and earlier allows local users to access arbitrary file contents within FFS to gain privileges by creating a file that is larger than allowed by the virtual memory system.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: up to and including 4.6.1

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