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CVE-2009-4358

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.7 Published: 2009-12-20 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

freebsd-update in FreeBSD 8.0, 7.2, 7.1, 6.4, and 6.3 uses insecure permissions in its working directory (/var/db/freebsd-update by default), which allows local users to read copies of sensitive files after a (1) freebsd-update fetch (fetch) or (2) freebsd-update upgrade (upgrade) operation.

Affected Platforms

Freebsd Freebsd

Weakness Type

CWE-264

References