CVE-1999-1385: Freebsd

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

Buffer overflow in ppp program in FreeBSD 2.1 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a long HOME environment variable.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: up to and including 2.1.0; version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; version 2.1.5 only; version 2.1.6 only; version 2.1.6.1 only

Published 1996-12-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.