CVE-2000-0312

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

cron in OpenBSD 2.5 allows local users to gain root privileges via an argv[] that is not NULL terminated, which is passed to cron's fake popen function.

cron in OpenBSD 2.5 allows local users to gain root privileges via an argv[] that is not NULL terminated, which is passed to cron's fake popen function.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 23 years ago

2001-03-12 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:20:00

Affected Software

OpenBSD 2.5

2.5

References

19990830 In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and run sendmail as the user, not as root.

Patch

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