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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 4, 2011· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2011-1073

CVE-2011-1073

Description

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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Affected products

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  • Apple Inc./Mac OS X2 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)
  • FreeBSD/FreeBSD2 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)

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