CVE-2000-1012 (GCVE-0-2000-1012)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2000-11-29 05:00
Modified
2024-08-08 05:37
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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