CVE-1999-1402: Freebsd

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The access permissions for a UNIX domain socket are ignored in Solaris 2.x and SunOS 4.x, and other BSD-based operating systems before 4.4, which could allow local users to connect to the socket and possibly disrupt or control the operations of the program using that socket.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 2.2.2 only; version 2.2.3 only; version 2.2.4 only; version 2.2.5 only; version 2.2.6 only; version 2.2.8 only; …
• Sun Solaris: version 2.5 only; version 2.5.1 only; version 2.6 only
• Sun Sunos: affected versions not specified; version 4.0 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.5 only; version 5.5.1 only

Published 1997-05-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.