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...

logwatch211.sh

--- INTRO --- LogWatch is a customizable log analysis system. LogWatch parses through your system's logs for a given period of time and creates a report analyzing areas that you specify, in as much detail as you require. The collected results are reported to a chosen e-mail address, root by...

CVE-2001-0559

crontab in Vixie cron 3.0.1 and earlier does not properly drop privileges after the failed parsing of a modification operation, which could allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges when an editor is called to correct the error...

CVE-2001-0560

Buffer overflow in Vixie cron 3.0.1-56 and earlier could allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges via a long username 20 characters...

CVE-2001-0559

The CVE-2001-0559 issue affects Vixie cron up to 3.0.1. crontab fails to drop privileges correctly after a failed parsing of a modification operation, potentially enabling a local attacker to gain additional privileges when an editor is invoked to fix the error. Publicly documented references (De...

CVE-2001-0560

CVE-2001-0560 describes a local privilege escalation in Vixie cron (3.0.1-56 and earlier) caused by a buffer overflow triggered by a username longer than 20 characters. Affected component: crontab handling in Vixie cron. Impact per sources: partial confidentiality/integrity/availability, local at...