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FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:12 - Periodic, a program to run periodic system functions, uses tempfiles insecurely. This allows a malicious local user to cause arbitrary files on the system to be corrupted. In a default state, periodic is normally called by cron for daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance. Because these scripts run as root, an attacker may potentially corrupt any file on the system.

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-01:12 - Periodic, a program to run periodic system functions, uses tempfiles insecurely. This allows a malicious local user to cause arbitrary files on the system to be corrupted. In a default state, periodic is normally called by cron for daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance. Because these scripts run as root, an attacker may potentially corrupt any file on the system.