CVE-2006-0539

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 0.8%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDFeb 4

1st PoCFeb 1

exploitation probability

0.8%top 47% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

The convert-fcrontab program in fcron 3.0.0 might allow local users to gain privileges via a long command-line argument, which causes Linux glibc to report heap memory corruption, possibly because a strcpy in the strdup2 function can "overwrite some data."

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/27159

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References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-01/0999.html http://fcron.free.fr/doc/en/changes.html http://fcron.free.fr/news.php#a20060206a.xml https://bugs.trustix.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1754 http://secunia.com/advisories/18719 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24444 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/423697/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16467 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0036 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0435