CVE-2000-0312 - cron in OpenBSD 2.5 allows local users to gain root privileges via an argv[] that is not NULL termin

CVE-2000-0312

Summary

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.

References

http://www.openbsd.org/errata25.html#cron

Vulnerable Configurations

cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS

Base:	7.2 (as of 05-09-2008 - 20:20)
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication
LOCAL	LOW	NONE

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
COMPLETE	COMPLETE	COMPLETE

cvss-vector via4

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

refmap via4

openbsd

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

Last major update

05-09-2008 - 20:20

Published

12-03-2001 - 05:00

Last modified

05-09-2008 - 20:20