CVE Catalog

CVE-1999-0964

High
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.45%

36th percentile - higher than 36% of all known CVEs

Summary

Buffer overflow in the setlocale function in the libc module of FreeBSD allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long PATH_LOCALE environment variable.

Risk Assessment

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to execute malicious code, potentially leading to system compromise.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update FreeBSD to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Buffer overflow in FreeBSD setlocale in the libc module allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long PATH_LOCALE environment variable.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS