CVE-2011-1075

NameCVE-2011-1075
DescriptionFreeBSD'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.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
cron (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)3.0pl1-127+deb8u2fixed
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch3.0pl1-128+deb9u2fixed
buster3.0pl1-134+deb10u1fixed
bullseye3.0pl1-137fixed
bookworm3.0pl1-162fixed
sid, trixie3.0pl1-189fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
cronsource(unstable)(not affected)

Notes

- cron <not-affected> (Debian's cron not affected)

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