CVE-1999-0781: Freebsd

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

KDE allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by setting the KDEDIR environmental variable to modify the search path that KDE uses to locate its executables.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 6.2 only
• Kde Kde: version 1.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.6.20.1 only

Published 1998-11-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.