CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-0783

5.5 MEDIUM Published 1998-06-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1998-06-16
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-59

Description

FreeBSD allows local users to conduct a denial of service by creating a hard link from a device special file to a file on an NFS file system.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd 2.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
  • CWE-62 UNIX Hard Link weakness

References