National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0575

Overview

convert-fcrontab in Fcron 2.9.5 and 3.0.0 allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via ".." sequences and a symlink attack on the temporary file that is used during conversion.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: XF

Name: fcron-dotdot-directory-traversal(24504)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/24504

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-0435

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0435

External Source: TRUSTIX

Name: 2006-0006

Hyperlink:http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0006

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 22905

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/22905

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 18719

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/18719

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20060202 Re: Fcrontab - memory corruption on heap.

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=full-disclosure&m=113890734603201&w=2

External Source: BID

Name: 25693

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25693