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.Referenceshttp://www.openbsd.org/errata30.html#mailhttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101855467811695&w=2http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4495http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8818.phphttp://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/267089http://www.osvdb.org/5269
