CVE Catalog

CVE-2000-0388

High
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
1.88%

77th percentile - higher than 77% of all known CVEs

Summary

Buffer overflow in FreeBSD libmytinfo library allows local users to execute commands via a long TERMCAP environmental variable.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may allow unauthorized command execution by local users, posing a significant security risk to the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to restrict access to the TERMCAP environment variable and update FreeBSD to the latest version to mitigate buffer overflow risks.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Buffer overflow in FreeBSD libmytinfo library allows local users to execute commands via a long TERMCAP environmental variable.

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