CVE Catalog

CVE-1999-1314

Low
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.33%

25th percentile - higher than 25% of all known CVEs

Summary

Vulnerability in the union file system in FreeBSD 2.2 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system reload) via a series of certain mount_union commands.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to disrupt system operation, leading to downtime and loss of service availability.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade to a newer version of FreeBSD that is not vulnerable to this issue and to restrict access to mount_union commands for local users.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Vulnerability in union file system in FreeBSD 2.2 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system reload) via a series of certain mount_union commands.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS