mail in OpenBSD 2.9 and 3.0 processes a tilde (~) escape character in a message even when it is not in interactive mode, which could allow local users to gain root privileges via calls to mail in cron.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2003-04-02T05:00:00

Updated: 2002-06-15T09:00:00

Reserved: 2002-06-07T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2002-0542

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2002-07-03T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2016-10-18T02:20:33.870


Link: CVE-2002-0542

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