CVE-2001-0560 (GCVE-0-2001-0560)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2002-03-09 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 04:21
VLAI
Summary
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).
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://www.osvdb.org/5583 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MD… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKE
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/linux/immu… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-014.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/20… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IY… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
Date Public
2001-02-10 00:00
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  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.