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CVE-2007-0166

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.6 Published: 2007-01-11 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The jail rc.d script in FreeBSD 5.3 up to 6.2 does not verify pathnames when writing to /var/log/console.log during a jail start-up, or when file systems are mounted or unmounted, which allows local root users to overwrite arbitrary files, or mount/unmount files, outside of the jail via a symlink attack.

Affected Platforms

Freebsd Freebsd

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References