Bug 4706

Summary: Big hole in crond
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: tymm
Component: crontabsAssignee: Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher>
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Version: 6.0CC: apetr, don, s_ball
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Description tymm 1999-08-25 18:16:12 UTC 
cron_popen is very very trusting, and has multiple problems:

1) for fun, on a system not accepting mail, set
MAILTO=" -bd" and put in an entry like * * * * * ls
wait a minute, and ps -ax | grep sendmail... Now try using
your imagination.

2) there's an overflowable buffer where if you put more than
100 space-seperated items into MAILTO, you get a nice segv.
Looks quite exploitable.
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-08-25 19:52:59 UTC 
Preliminary patch sent - look sane?
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 1999-08-27 20:35:59 UTC 
fixed in errata.