CVE-2001-0559

This exploit leverages a privilege-dropping failure in Vixie cron's crontab utility (CVE-2001-0559) to gain root privileges. It compiles a setuid shell wrapper and manipulates the editor invocation to escalate privileges.

This exploit targets a privilege escalation vulnerability in Vixie cron (CVE-2001-0559) where crontab fails to drop privileges correctly after a parsing error. It compiles a helper binary to spawn a root shell if the exploit succeeds.