CVE-2000-1012

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

The catopen function in FreeBSD 5.0 and earlier, and possibly other OSes, allows local users to read arbitrary files via the LANG environmental variable.

The catopen function in FreeBSD 5.0 and earlier, and possibly other OSes, allows local users to read arbitrary files via the LANG environmental 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

Type

FreeBSD

First reported 24 years ago

2000-12-11 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:22:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 3.0

3.0

FreeBSD 3.1

3.1

FreeBSD 3.2

3.2

FreeBSD 3.3

3.3

FreeBSD 3.4

3.4

FreeBSD 3.5

3.5

FreeBSD 3.5.1

3.5.1

FreeBSD 4.0

4.0

FreeBSD 4.1

4.1

FreeBSD 4.1.1

4.1.1

FreeBSD 4.2

4.2

FreeBSD 5.0

5.0

References

FreeBSD-SA-00:53

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