CVE-2011-1075 FreeBSD's crontab calculates the MD5 sum of the previous and new cronjob to determine if any changes have been made before copying the new version in. In particular, it uses the MD5File() function, wh...
LowCVSS 3.7
EPSS 0.76%
- Published
- Updated
- Exploit status
- No public exploit known
Description
FreeBSD's crontab calculates the MD5 sum of the previous and new cronjob to determine if any changes have been made before copying the new version in. In particular, it uses the MD5File() function, which takes a pathname as an argument, and is called with euid 0. A race condition in this process may lead to an arbitrary MD5 comparison regardless of the read permissions.
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| freebsd | All versions | No fix listed |
References
- marc.info third-party-advisory
- security.netapp.com third-party-advisory
- www.openwall.com mailing-list third-party-advisory
- Debian Security Tracker CVE-2011-1075 vendor-advisory