CVE-2002-2188 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting OpenBSD versions prior to 3.2. A local attacker can trigger a kernel crash by providing invalid arguments to the getrlimit(2) system call, potentially due to an integer signedness error. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.9, indicating a low severity with local access required and a complete impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor is exploit code publicly available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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