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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-08T02:56:37.079Z
Reserved: 2002-06-07T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2002-0542

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2002-07-03T04:00:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193
Link: CVE-2002-0542

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