Vulnerabilities > Paul Vixie
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-04-18 | CVE-2007-1856 | Local Denial of Service vulnerability in Vixie Cron ST_Nlink Check Vixie Cron before 4.1-r10 on Gentoo Linux is installed with insecure permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (cron failure) by creating hard links, which results in a failed st_nlink check in database.c. | 2.1 |
| 2006-05-25 | CVE-2006-2607 | Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Paul Vixie Cron 4.1 do_command.c in Vixie cron (vixie-cron) 4.1 does not check the return code of a setuid call, which might allow local users to gain root privileges if setuid fails in cases such as PAM failures or resource limits, as originally demonstrated by a program that exceeds the process limits as defined in /etc/security/limits.conf. | 7.2 |
| 2005-05-02 | CVE-2005-1038 | 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. | 2.1 |
| 2001-08-22 | CVE-2001-0560 | Local Security vulnerability in Vixie Cron Buffer overflow in Vixie cron 3.0.1-56 and earlier could allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges via a long username (> 20 characters). | 4.6 |
| 2001-08-14 | CVE-2001-0559 | Unspecified vulnerability in Paul Vixie Cron 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. | 7.2 |
| 2001-01-09 | CVE-2000-1096 | Unspecified vulnerability in Paul Vixie Cron 3.0Pl1 crontab by Paul Vixie uses predictable file names for a temporary file and does not properly ensure that the file is owned by the user executing the crontab -e command, which allows local users with write access to the crontab spool directory to execute arbitrary commands by creating world-writeable temporary files and modifying them while the victim is editing the file. | 3.7 |
| 1999-08-25 | CVE-1999-0872 | Buffer overflow in Vixie cron allows local users to gain root access via a long MAILTO environment variable in a crontab file. | 7.2 |
| 1999-08-25 | CVE-1999-0769 | Vixie Cron on Linux systems allows local users to set parameters of sendmail commands via the MAILTO environmental variable. | 7.2 |
| 1996-12-12 | CVE-1999-0297 | Buffer overflow in Vixie Cron library up to version 3.0 allows local users to obtain root access via a long environmental variable. | 7.2 |