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Date:      Thu, 1 Sep 2016 08:37:46 -0500
From:      Matt Donovan <kitchetech@gmail.com>
To:        Andrii Kuzik <akuzik@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: edit others user crontab, security bug
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So your doing it as root. Root can do that.  As it has access to everything.

On Sep 1, 2016 8:15 AM, "Andrii Kuzik" <akuzik@gmail.com> wrote:

> Probably a lot of freebsd servers affected
>
> Security bug allows to edit other users crontab
>
> root# pw useradd -n www.promspecbud.com  -g nobody -s /bin/sh -d /tmp
> root# pw useradd -n www.promspecbud.com.other -g nobody -s /bin/sh -d /tmp
> root# echo @daily doit baby > /tmp/test
> root# crontab -u www.promspecbud.com.other /tmp/test
> root# crontab -u www.promspecbud.com -l
>
> =====output =====
> @daily doit baby
> =================
>
> root#echo @daily doit baby one more time>> /tmp/test
> root#sudo -u www.promspecbud.com.other crontab /tmp/test
> root#sudo -u www.promspecbud.com crontab -l
> =====output =====
> @daily doit baby
> @daily doit baby one more time
> =================
>
> root# uname -a
> FreeBSD kuzik 10.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE #0 r297264: Fri Mar 25
> 02:10:02 UTC 2016
> root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>
> best regards, Andrii Kuzik
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