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FKIE_CVE-2001-0560

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2001-08-22 04:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 21:54

Severity

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).

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-02/0197.html	Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/linux/immunix/2001-q1/0066.html	Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IY17048&apar=only
cve@mitre.org	http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IY17261&apar=only
cve@mitre.org	http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-022.php3	Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.osvdb.org/5583
cve@mitre.org	http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-014.html	Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6098
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-02/0197.html	Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/linux/immunix/2001-q1/0066.html	Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IY17048&apar=only
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IY17261&apar=only
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-022.php3	Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.osvdb.org/5583
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-014.html	Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6098

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	paul_vixie	vixie_cron	*

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2002-03-09 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 04:21

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

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2286 records in the last 180 days details

References

8 references

URL	Tags
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IY…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
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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Sightings

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