CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-0872

7.2 HIGH Published 1999-08-25 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-08-25
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Buffer overflow in Vixie cron allows local users to gain root access via a long MAILTO environment variable in a crontab file.

Affected configurations

• paul vixie vixie cron 3.0 pl1 • caldera openlinux 2.2 • debian debian linux 2.1 • debian debian linux 2.2 • redhat linux 4.0 • redhat linux 4.1 • redhat linux 4.2 • redhat linux 5.0 • redhat linux 5.1 • redhat linux 5.2 • redhat linux 6.0

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