CVE-2005-1038

crontab in Vixie cron 4.1, when running with the -e option, allows local users to read the cron files of other users by changing the file being edited to a symlink. NOTE: there is insufficient information to know whether this is a duplicate of CVE-2001-0235...

CVE-2005-1038

crontab in Vixie cron 4.1, when running with the -e option, allows local users to read the cron files of other users by changing the file being edited to a symlink. NOTE: there is insufficient information to know whether this is a duplicate of CVE-2001-0235...

CVE-2005-1038

CVE-2005-1038 affects Vixie cron 4.1 where running cron with -e can be exploited by a local attacker to read other users’ crontab files via a symlink. Connected advisories (RHSA-2005:361, RHSA-2006:0117, SUSE/SUSE‑CRON plugins) indicate fixes in vixie-cron are available and released as security u...

CVE-2005-1038

crontab in Vixie cron 4.1, when running with the -e option, allows local users to read the cron files of other users by changing the file being edited to a symlink. NOTE: there is insufficient information to know whether this is a duplicate of CVE-2001-0235...

vixie-cron symbolic links information leak

During editing synbolic links are not checked, allowing to read tasf files of different users...

crontab from vixie-cron allows read other users crontabs

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Name: vixie-cron Author: Karol Wisek [email protected] Date: Mar 21, 2005 Issue: crontab allows any user to read another users crontabs Description: Crontab is used to create special files used by cron to execute commands at specified dates an...

Debian DSA-024-1 : cron - local insecure crontab handling

The FreeBSD team has found a bug in the way new crontabs were handled which allowed malicious users to display arbitrary crontab files on the local system. This only affects valid crontab files so it can't be used to get access to /etc/shadow or something. crontab files are not especially secure...

Debian DSA-054-1 : cron - local root exploit

A recent fall 2000 security fix to cron introduced an error in giving up privileges before invoking the editor. This was discovered by Sebastian Krahmer from SuSE. A malicious user could easily gain root access. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

RsyncX vulnerabilities

Product: RsyncX is a frontend for rsync running on OS X, with additional features such as crontab editing. http://www.macosxlabs.org/rsyncx/rsyncx.html Problems: 1 RsyncX is installed setuid root and setgid wheel. Upon execution, the program drops root privileges only via seteuidgetuid . However ...

MacOSXLabs RsyncX 2.1 - Insecure Temporary File Creation

MacOSXLabs RsyncX 2.1 - Insecure Temporary File Creation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11212/info RsyncX is reported to contain an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. The result of this is that temporary files created by the application may use predictable filenames. A loc...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : vixie-cron (MDKSA-2001:050)

A recent security fix to cron introduced a new problem with giving up privileges before invoking the editor. A malicious local user could exploit this to gain root access. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted fr...

Solaris 7 (sparc) : 107451-08

SunOS 5.7: /usr/sbin/cron Patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Jan/14/04 %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a recommended security fix. Disabled on 2011/09/17. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. if !...

CVE-2002-0542

Technical details about CVE-2002-0542 are not publicly provided in the supplied documents. Monitor for updates from CVE lists and vendor advisories.

CVE-2002-0542

mail in OpenBSD 2.9 and 3.0 processes a tilde escape character in a message even when it is not in interactive mode, which could allow local users to gain root privileges via calls to mail in cron...

@stake Advisory: MacOS X TruBlueEnvironment Privilege Escalation Attack

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 @stake, Inc. www.atstake.com Security Advisory Advisory Name: TruBlueEnvironment Privilege Escalation Attack Release Date: 02/14/2003 Application: TruBlueEnvironment Platform: MacOS X 10.2.3 and below Severity: Local users can gain root privileges...

CVE-2002-1838

Charities.cron 1.0.2 through 1.6.0 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files...

[RAZOR] Problems with mkstemp()

Common use of 'tmpwatch' utility and its counterparts triggers race conditions in many applications Michal Zalewski [email protected], 12/05/2002 Copyright C 2002 by Bindview Corporation 1 Scope and exposure info -------------------------- A common practice of installing 'tmpwatch' utili...

Privelege escalation via cron in OpenBSD

During mail'ing of job results shell characters are not properly escaped for mail command...

OpenBSD Local Root Compromise

ZOOM International Security Advisory OpenBSD local root compromise Systems affected: OpenBSD all version, OpenBSD Current prior April 8, 2002 Risk: High Date: April 11, 2002 Legal Notice: This advisory is copyright c ZOOM International. Disclaimer: Information contained in this advisory are...

OpenBSD 2.93.0 - Default Crontab Root Command Injection

OpenBSD 2.93.0 - Default Crontab Root Command Injection / source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4495/info OpenBSD ships with a number of cron jobs configured by default. The tasks are for the purpose of summarizing system information. The mail1 utility is used to send the summaries to the roo...