fkie_cve-2000-1012
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2000-12-11 05:00
Modified
2025-04-03 01:03
Severity ?
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.
References
cve@mitre.orgftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:53.catopen.ascPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:53.catopen.ascPatch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
freebsd freebsd 3.0
freebsd freebsd 3.1
freebsd freebsd 3.2
freebsd freebsd 3.3
freebsd freebsd 3.4
freebsd freebsd 3.5
freebsd freebsd 3.5.1
freebsd freebsd 4.0
freebsd freebsd 4.1
freebsd freebsd 4.1.1
freebsd freebsd 4.2
freebsd freebsd 5.0


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  "id": "CVE-2000-1012",
  "lastModified": "2025-04-03T01:03:51.193",
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