CVE-2000-0312

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Feb 14, 2001
Updated: Aug 8, 2024
Reserved: May 11, 2000

Description

cron in OpenBSD 2.5 allows local users to gain root privileges via an argv[] that is not NULL terminated, which is passed to cron's fake popen function.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

19990830 In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and run sendmail as the user, not as root.vendor-advisory

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