Bug 1617598 (CVE-2005-1038) - CVE-2005-1038 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2005-1038 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2005-1038
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 04:08 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2021-02-16 23:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 04:08:19 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 04:08:14 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 16:16:40 UTC 
MITRE description:

crontab in Vixie cron 4.1, when running with the -e option, allows local users to read the cron files of other users by changing the file being edited to a symlink.  NOTE: there is insufficient information to know whether this is a duplicate of CVE-2001-0235.
Comment 2 Stephen Herr 2019-06-13 19:22:53 UTC 
Statement:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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