CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-0872

Published: Aug 25, 1999 | Modified: Sep 09, 2008
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Vixie_cron Paul_vixie 3.0_pl1 (including) 3.0_pl1 (including)

References