Vulnerability in Caldera Openlinux
CVE-1999-0872
Buffer overflow in Vixie cron allows local users to gain root access via a long MAILTO environment variable in a crontab file.
EPSS: 0.004 (27.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Caldera Openlinux — versions 2.2
- Paul_vixie Vixie_cron — versions 3.0_pl1
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 2.1, 2.2
- Redhat Linux — versions 4.0, 4.1, 4.2
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)