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, 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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 3.7 Low

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2021-10-19

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-362

Affected products

• Freebsd (Freebsd)

References

• https://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=129891323028897&w=2
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211125-0004/
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/14