CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-1012

7.2 HIGH Published 2000-12-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-12-11
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

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 configurations

• 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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