CVE-2001-0196: Freebsd

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

inetd ident server in FreeBSD 4.x and earlier does not properly set group permissions, which allows remote attackers to read the first 16 bytes of files that are accessible by the wheel group.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 3.5 only; version 3.5.1 only; version 4.1.1 only; version 4.2 only

Published 2001-05-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.