National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-1038
Original release date:05/02/2005
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
- Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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External Source: BID
Name: 13024
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20050406 crontab from vixie-cron allows read other users crontabs
Type: Advisory
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2006:0117
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2005:361
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2007:007
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-118.htm
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24995
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20666
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19532
External Source: SGI
Name: 20060401-01-U
