CVE-2002-0542
mail in OpenBSD 2.9 and 3.0 processes a tilde (~) escape character in a message even when it is not in interactive mode, which could allow local users to gain root privileges via calls to mail in cron.
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 7.2 High
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2002-07-03
- Last modified
- 2024-08-08
Affected products
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101855467811695&w=2
- http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/267089
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8818.php
- http://www.openbsd.org/errata30.html#mail
- http://www.osvdb.org/5269
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4495
