CVE-2005-1038
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2005-04-10 04:00
Modified
2024-08-07 21:35
Severity ?
Summary
crontab in Vixie cron 4.1, when running with the -e option, allows local users to read the cron files of other users by changing the file being edited to a symlink. NOTE: there is insufficient information to know whether this is a duplicate of CVE-2001-0235.
References
cve@mitre.orgftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060401-01-U
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/19532
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/20666
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/24995
cve@mitre.orghttp://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-118.htm
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_007_suse.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-361.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0117.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/395093Exploit, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13024Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11104
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060401-01-U
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/19532
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/20666
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/24995
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-118.htm
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_007_suse.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-361.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0117.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/395093Exploit, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13024Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11104
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