CVE-2006-0539

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-02-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The convert-fcrontab program in fcron 3.0.0 might allow local users to gain privileges via a long command-line argument, which causes Linux glibc to report heap memory corruption, possibly because a strcpy in the strdup2 function can "overwrite some data."

Affected products

Thibault Godouet Fcron: 3.0.0

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-01/0999.html
http://fcron.free.fr/doc/en/changes.html
http://fcron.free.fr/news.php#a20060206a.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/18719
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/423697/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16467
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0036
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0435
https://bugs.trustix.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1754
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24444
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-01/0999.html
http://fcron.free.fr/doc/en/changes.html

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