CVE-1999-0782: Freebsd

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

KDE kppp allows local users to create a directory in an arbitrary location via the HOME environmental variable.

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.