CVE-2011-1073 (GCVE-0-2011-1073)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-03-04 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:14
VLAI
Summary
crontab.c in crontab in FreeBSD and Apple Mac OS X allows local users to (1) determine the existence of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/crontab.XXXXXXXXXX temporary file and (2) perform MD5 checksum comparisons on arbitrary pairs of files via two symlink attacks on /tmp/crontab.XXXXXXXXXX temporary files.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/14 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46604 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8117 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516716/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/6 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=12989132302… mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
Date Public
2011-02-28 00:00
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