crontab in Vixie cron 3.0.1 and earlier does not properly drop privileges after the failed parsing of a modification operation, which could allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges when an editor is called to correct the error.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2002-03-09T05:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-08T04:21:38.708Z
Reserved: 2001-07-27T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2001-0559
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2001-08-14T04:00:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-20T23:35:38.993
Link: CVE-2001-0559
Redhat
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