CVE-1999-0964: Freebsd

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

Buffer overflow in FreeBSD setlocale in the libc module allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long PATH_LOCALE environment variable.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 2.1.6 only

Published 2000-01-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.