CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1385

7.2 HIGH Published 1996-12-19 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1996-12-19
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Buffer overflow in ppp program in FreeBSD 2.1 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a long HOME environment variable.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd (<= 2.1.0) • freebsd freebsd 1.0 • freebsd freebsd 1.1 • freebsd freebsd 2.1.5 • freebsd freebsd 2.1.6 • freebsd freebsd 2.1.6.1

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