CVE-2001-0310

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

sort in FreeBSD 4.1.1 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, uses predictable temporary file names and does not properly handle when the temporary file already exists, which causes sort to crash and possibly impacts security-sensitive scripts.

sort in FreeBSD 4.1.1 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, uses predictable temporary file names and does not properly handle when the temporary file already exists, which causes sort to crash and possibly impacts security-sensitive scripts.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

FreeBSD

First reported 23 years ago

2001-06-02 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 3.5.1

3.5.1

FreeBSD 4.1.1

4.1.1

References

FreeBSD-SA-01:13

3960

sort-temp-file-abort(6038)

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