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Re: Vixie cron vulnerability

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay D. Dyson)
Tue May 8 18:05:46 2001

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Date:         Tue, 8 May 2001 14:01:21 -0700
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From: "Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson@treachery.net>
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On Tue, 8 May 2001, Edwin Chiu wrote:

> The exploit failed for:
> Redhat 6.1
>     vixie-cron-3.0.1-39
> Redhat 6.2
>     vixie-cron-3.0.1-40

	*nod* I wrote to Cade directly regarding the advisory as it seems
to me that the issue is more a matter of Debian's implementation of Vixie
cron than an issue with Vixie cron itself.  I'm still futzing with it to
see if any other implementations will squeal.  Fun and interesting results
will be posted when found.  ;)

- -Jay

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