CVE-2002-1915: Freebsd

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

tip on multiple BSD-based operating systems allows local users to cause a denial of service (execution prevention) by using flock() to lock the /var/log/acculog file.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 3.5 only; version 3.5.1 only; version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.1.1 only; version 4.2 only; …
• Netbsd Netbsd: version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.2 only; version 1.2.1 only; version 1.3 only; version 1.3.1 only; …
• OpenBSD OpenBSD: version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.2 only; version 2.3 only; version 2.4 only; version 2.5 only; …

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.