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CVE-1999-0872
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
Buffer overflow in Vixie cron allows local users to gain root access via a long MAILTO environment variable in a crontab file..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- High
- Base Score
- 7.2/10
- Exploit Score
- 3.9/10
- Access Vector
- Local
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 10/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- Complete
- Availability Impact
- Complete
- Integrity Impact
- Complete
Products Affected
| CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:paul_vixie:vixie_cron:3.0_pl1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
| cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
| cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
| cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
| cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:5.2:*:i386:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
| cpe:2.3:o:caldera:openlinux:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
| cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:6.0:*:i386:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
| cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
| cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
| cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
| cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |