CVE-1999-1385

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Buffer overflow in ppp program in FreeBSD 2.1 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a long HOME environment variable.

Buffer overflow in ppp program in FreeBSD 2.1 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a long HOME environment variable.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 28 years ago

1996-12-19 05:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:03:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 1.0

1.0

FreeBSD 1.1

1.1

FreeBSD

FreeBSD 2.1.5

2.1.5

FreeBSD 2.1.6

2.1.6

FreeBSD 2.1.6.1

2.1.6.1

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