CVE-2000-1012: High severity FreeBSD FreeBSD vulnerability

Published Nov 29, 2000

Updated

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.

Affected Software

12 affected components

FreeBSD FreeBSD=3.1

FreeBSD FreeBSD=3.5.1

FreeBSD FreeBSD=4.1

FreeBSD FreeBSD=3.0

FreeBSD FreeBSD=3.2

FreeBSD FreeBSD=4.2

FreeBSD FreeBSD=3.3

FreeBSD FreeBSD=4.0

FreeBSD FreeBSD=4.1.1

FreeBSD FreeBSD=3.4

FreeBSD FreeBSD=3.5

FreeBSD FreeBSD=5.0

Remediation

Patch Available

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:53.catopen.asc

Event History

Nov 29, 2000

CVE Published

via MITRE·10:00 AM

Data Sourced

via MITRE·10:00 AM

Description

CVSS Score

7.2High

High Severity

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

Security Metrics

Risk Score63

Severityhigh(7.2)

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Timeline

PublishedNov 29, 2000

Updated

Tags

agent/typeagent/severityagent/weaknessagent/remedyagent/last-modified-dateagent/authoragent/descriptionagent/sourcecollector/nvd-historicalagent/software-canonical-lookup-requestcollector/nvd-indexagent/softwarecombineagent/risk-scoreagent/tagscollector/mitre-cvesource/MITREagent/first-publish-dateagent/eventvendor/freebsdcanonical/freebsd freebsdversion/freebsd freebsd/3.1version/freebsd freebsd/3.5.1version/freebsd freebsd/4.1version/freebsd freebsd/3.0version/freebsd freebsd/3.2version/freebsd freebsd/4.2version/freebsd freebsd/3.3version/freebsd freebsd/4.0version/freebsd freebsd/4.1.1version/freebsd freebsd/3.4version/freebsd freebsd/3.5version/freebsd freebsd/5.0

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