CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-0539
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-02-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
The convert-fcrontab program in fcron 3.0.0 might allow local users to gain privileges via a long command-line argument, which causes Linux glibc to report heap memory corruption, possibly because a strcpy in the strdup2 function can "overwrite some data."
Affected configurations
• thibault godouet fcron 3.0.0
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-01/0999.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://fcron.free.fr/doc/en/changes.html fcron.free.fr
- http://fcron.free.fr/news.php#a20060206a.xml fcron.free.fr
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18719 secunia.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/423697/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16467 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0036 www.trustix.org
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0435 www.vupen.com
- https://bugs.trustix.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1754 bugs.trustix.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24444 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-01/0999.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://fcron.free.fr/doc/en/changes.html fcron.free.fr
- http://fcron.free.fr/news.php#a20060206a.xml fcron.free.fr
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18719 secunia.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/423697/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16467 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0036 www.trustix.org
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0435 www.vupen.com
- https://bugs.trustix.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1754 bugs.trustix.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24444 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com