Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting freebsd package, versions [,6.2]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2383128
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Feb 2001
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Feb 2001

CVE-2000-0890  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for freebsd.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution periodic in FreeBSD 4.1.1 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

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