CVE-1999-0761: Freebsd

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in FreeBSD fts library routines allows local user to modify arbitrary files via the periodic program.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 1.1.5.1 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.5 only; version 2.1.0 only; version 2.1.5 only; version 2.1.7.1 only; …

Published 2000-09-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.