Bugtraq: Re: Root shell vixie cron exploit

[raymond () THRIJSWIJK NL (Raymond Dijkxhoorn)]

Hi!

>   I had assumed that the whole problem with the vixie-cron exploit was
> that cron allowed users to invoke sendmail with arbitrary command-line
> options *as root*, so dropping SUID status doesn't do any good.
> Sendmail doesn't try to protect the root user from themselves.
I tried it on several RedHat 4.x 5.x and 6.x boxes and when they ARE
running sendmail, a lot alsos did qmail, it worked just fine...

Bye,
Raymond.