CVE-2006-0539
fcron 3.0.0 - Local Privilege Escalation via Long Command-Line Argument
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2006-0539. PoCs published by Adam Zabrocki.
AI-analyzed exploit summary The provided text describes a retired local buffer-overflow vulnerability in Fcron 3.0, which was initially believed to allow arbitrary code execution with superuser privileges. However, further analysis determined it was not exploitable for code execution.
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."
Exploits (1)
The provided text describes a retired local buffer-overflow vulnerability in Fcron 3.0, which was initially believed to allow arbitrary code execution with superuser privileges. However, further analysis determined it was not exploitable for code execution.