CVE Catalog

CVE-2000-1012

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

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.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to unauthorized access to sensitive data by local users, posing a significant security risk to the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the system to a newer version that does not contain this vulnerability and to restrict access to the LANG environmental variable.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

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