CVE-1999-1298

Summary

CVE-1999-1298 is a vulnerability affecting FreeBSD 2.2.1 and earlier versions. During the configuration of anonymous FTP, the sysinstall process creates a new user account named 'ftp' with an empty password and sets its shell to '/bin/date'. This issue permits unauthorized access, potentially granting attackers the ability to exploit certain system resources. Users are advised to update their systems to mitigate this risk.

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