CVE-1999-0964: Buffer Overflow

First published: Sat Jan 01 2000(Updated: )

Buffer overflow in FreeBSD setlocale in the libc module allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long PATH_LOCALE environment variable.

Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org

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