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Unixware Cron Command Line Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Cron is a task scheduler for Unix systems.

Crontab is prone to a buffer overflow in handling of command line parameters. An attacker may take advantage of this by executing crontab with a malicious argument.

If successfully exploited, this vulnerability will surrender 'root' access to the remote attacker.