CVE-2000-0890 (GCVE-0-2000-0890)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2001-05-07 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 05:37
VLAI
Summary
periodic in FreeBSD 4.1.1 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2325 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.osvdb.org/1754 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/626919 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
Date Public
2000-11-13 00:00
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