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Cron is a task scheduler for Unix systems.
Unixware Cron Command Line Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
by platon on July 1st, 2001Cron is a task scheduler for Unix systems.
Crontab is prone to a buffer overflow in handling of command line parameters. An attacker may take advantage of this by executing crontab with a malicious argument.
If successfully exploited, this vulnerability will surrender 'root' access to the remote attacker.
The vendor has supplied a fix for this issue. It can be installed with the following commands:
# uncompress /tmp/erg711714a.Z
# pkgadd -d /tmp/erg711714a
Caldera UnixWare 7:
Caldera patch Unixware 7 erg711714a.Z
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