Symlink Vulnerabilities in crontab.c in FreeBSD and Apple Mac OS X

CVE-2011-1073 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

crontab.c in crontab in FreeBSD and Apple Mac OS X allows local users to (1) determine the existence of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/crontab.XXXXXXXXXX temporary file and (2) perform MD5 checksum comparisons on arbitrary pairs of files via two symlink attacks on /tmp/crontab.XXXXXXXXXX temporary files.

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