full-disclosure - Re: crontab from vixie-cron allows read other users crontabs

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Date: Wed Apr  6 22:25:25 2005
From: ge at linuxbox.org (Gadi Evron)
Subject: Re: crontab from vixie-cron allows read other
	users crontabs

Karol Wi?sek wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Name:			vixie-cron

[snip]

> Details:
> 
> Insufficient checks allows user to change during edition regular file to
> symbolic link to any file. While copying crontab uses root permisions,
> but also checks entrys, so attacker is only able to read properly
> formated crontab files (another users crontabs).

[snip]

It should be noted that this is redhat specific, not in "vixie-cron".

*sniff*

	Gadi.