CVE-1999-1187: Freebsd

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Pine before version 3.94 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a lockfile that is created when a user receives new mail.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 2.1.0 only
• Slackware Slackware Linux: version 3.0 only
• University Of Washington Pine: up to and including 3.94

Published 1996-08-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.