CVE-2000-0749: Freebsd

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the Linux binary compatibility module in FreeBSD 3.x through 5.x allows local users to gain root privileges via long filenames in the linux shadow file system.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 3.0 only; version 3.1 only; version 3.2 only; version 3.3 only; version 3.4 only; version 3.5 only; …

Published 2000-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.