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Bug 4706 - Big hole in crond
Big hole in crond
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: crontabs (Show other bugs)
6.0
All Linux
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Assigned To: Crutcher Dunnavant
: Security
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Reported: 1999-08-25 14:16 EDT by tymm
Modified: 2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2001-04-10 18:01:03 EDT
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Description tymm 1999-08-25 14:16:12 EDT 
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 15:52:59 EDT 
Preliminary patch sent - look sane?
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 1999-08-27 16:35:59 EDT 
fixed in errata.
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