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CVE Reference: CVE-2001-0559
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2001-0559

Description:
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.

CVE Status:
Entry

References:

XF

SUSE

MANDRAKE

DEBIAN

BUGTRAQ

BID
  2687


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