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CVE-1999-0783

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1998-06-16 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

FreeBSD allows local users to conduct a denial of service by creating a hard link from a device special file to a file on an NFS file system.

Affected products

• FreeBSD: 2.2

References

• http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/i-057.shtml
• http://www.osvdb.org/6090
• http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/i-057.shtml
• http://www.osvdb.org/6090

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