Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 25, 1999· Updated Apr 16, 2026

CVE-1999-0872

Description

Buffer overflow in Vixie cron allows local users to gain root access via a long MAILTO environment variable in a crontab file.

Paul Vixie/Vixie Cron
cpe:2.3:a:paul_vixie:vixie_cron:3.0_pl1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Caldera (company)/Openlinux
cpe:2.3:o:caldera:openlinux:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Debian/Debian Linux2 versions
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Red Hat/Linux7 versions
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 6 more
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:5.2:*:i386:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:6.0:*:i386:*:*:*:*:*

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