CVE-2000-0890: Freebsd

Low severity, CVSS 1.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

periodic in FreeBSD 4.1.1 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 6.2 only

Published 2001-02-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.