Information Exposure Affecting freebsd package, versions [3.5.1,4.1.1]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2382983
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Jun 2001
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Jun 2001

CVE-2001-0310  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for freebsd.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure sort in FreeBSD 4.1.1 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, uses predictable temporary file names and does not properly handle when the temporary file already exists, which causes sort to crash and possibly impacts security-sensitive scripts.

CVSS Scores

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