CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2004-0793

Published: Oct 20, 2004 | Modified: Jul 11, 2017
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

The calendar program in bsdmainutils 6.0 through 6.0.14 does not drop root privileges when executed with the -a flag, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a calendar event file.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Bsdmainutils Debian 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Bsdmainutils Debian 6.0.1 (including) 6.0.1 (including)
Bsdmainutils Debian 6.0.2 (including) 6.0.2 (including)
Bsdmainutils Debian 6.0.3 (including) 6.0.3 (including)
Bsdmainutils Debian 6.0.4 (including) 6.0.4 (including)
Bsdmainutils Debian 6.0.5 (including) 6.0.5 (including)
Bsdmainutils Debian 6.0.6 (including) 6.0.6 (including)
Bsdmainutils Debian 6.0.7 (including) 6.0.7 (including)
Bsdmainutils Debian 6.0.8 (including) 6.0.8 (including)
Bsdmainutils Debian 6.0.9 (including) 6.0.9 (including)
Bsdmainutils Debian 6.0.10 (including) 6.0.10 (including)
Bsdmainutils Debian 6.0.11 (including) 6.0.11 (including)
Bsdmainutils Debian 6.0.12 (including) 6.0.12 (including)
Bsdmainutils Debian 6.0.13 (including) 6.0.13 (including)
Bsdmainutils Debian 6.0.14 (including) 6.0.14 (including)

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