Vulnerability CVE-2004-0793
Published: 2004-10-20   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The calendar program in bsdmainutils 6.0 through 6.0.14 does not drop root privileges when executed with the -a flag, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a calendar event file.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Debian -> Debian linux 
Debian -> Bsdmainutils 

 References:
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109396230317359&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11077
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17162
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