PT-2000-1922 · Freebsd · Freebsd

Published 2000-12-11 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2000-1012

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.2

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FreeBSD versions 5.0 and earlier

Description The issue allows local users to read arbitrary files. This is achieved through the catopen function and the LANG environmental variable.

Recommendations For FreeBSD versions 5.0 and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2000-1012

Affected Products

Freebsd

References · 2

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-1012 · Security Note
• ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:53.catopen.asc · Vendor Advisory