Vulnerabilities > Paul Vixie > Vixie Cron > 4.1

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
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.
local
low complexity
paul-vixie
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.
local
low complexity
paul-vixie redhat
2.1