CVE

Id
852  
CVE No.
CVE-1999-0872  
Status
Candidate  
Description
Buffer overflow in Vixie cron allows local users to gain root access via a long MAILTO environment variable in a crontab file.  
Phase
Proposed (19991214)  
Votes
MODIFY(2) Cole, Frech | NOOP(1) Baker | REJECT(3) Blake, Christey, Stracener  
Comments
Cole> 611 is the mail to listed above but 759 is for the mail from and | should be listed as a separate vulenrability. | Blake> This does not appear materially different from CVE-1999-0768 | Christey> This is an apparent duplicate of CVE-1999-0768. | REDHAT:RHSA-1999:030-02 describes two issues, one of which is | CVE-1999-0768, and the other is CVE-1999-0769. | Stracener> This is a duplicate of candidate CVE-1999-0768. | Frech> XF:cron-sendmail-bo-root | Christey> BID:759 is improperly assigned to this candidate and doesn"t | even describe it. It may have been inadvertently copied | from CVE-1999-0873.  

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Related CVE References

Id CVE Id CVE No. Reference Actions
1978 852 CVE-1999-0872 BID:759  View
1979 852 CVE-1999-0872 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/759  View
1980 852 CVE-1999-0872 BID:611  View
1981 852 CVE-1999-0872 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/611  View

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