Vulnerability in Freebsd

CVE-1999-0781

KDE allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by setting the KDEDIR environmental variable to modify the search path that KDE uses to locate its executables.

EPSS: 0.004 (34.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Freebsd — versions 6.2
Kde — versions 1.0
Linux Linux_kernel — versions 2.6.20.1
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)