CVE-2005-1038 Information

Description

crontab in Vixie cron 4.1 when running with the -e option allows local users to read the cron files of other users by changing the file being edited to a symlink. NOTE: there is insufficient information to know whether this is a duplicate of CVE-2001-0235.

Reference

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060401-01-U http://secunia.com/advisories/19532 http://secunia.com/advisories/20666 http://secunia.com/advisories/24995 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-118.htm http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_007_suse.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-361.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0117.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/395093 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13024 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11104