CVE-2001-0310: Freebsd

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

sort in FreeBSD 4.1.1 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, uses predictable temporary file names and does not properly handle when the temporary file already exists, which causes sort to crash and possibly impacts security-sensitive scripts.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 3.5.1 only; version 4.1.1 only

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