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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jun 16, 1998· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-1999-0783

CVE-1999-0783

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

2

FreeBSD/FreeBSD2 versions
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

2

www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/i-057.shtmlnvdBroken Link
www.osvdb.org/6090nvdBroken Link

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