CVE Catalog

CVE-2000-1013

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The setlocale 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 serious security threat 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 setlocale 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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