Unscored CVE-2000-0312 EUVD-2000-0311GHSA-835h-phw4-qgfr

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 po…

Published Feb 14, 2001 · Updated Aug 8, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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.

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