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Fedora 30: 2019-676e120269 Moderate: Cronie Remote Denial of Service Fix

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Calendar Grey March 29, 2019
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This small patch addresses vulnerabilities linked to cron jobs, delivering improvements for enhanced efficiency and reliability.
Minor security and bugfix update to version 1.5.4.

Summary

Cronie contains the standard UNIX daemon crond that runs specified programs at

scheduled times and related tools. It is a fork of the original vixie-cron and

has security and configuration enhancements like the ability to use pam and

SELinux.

Minor security and bugfix update to version 1.5.4.

[ 1 ] Bug #1687688 - CVE-2019-9704 vixie-cron: calloc return value resulting in remote dos

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1687688

[ 2 ] Bug #1687694 - CVE-2019-9705 vixie-cron: dos(memory consumption) via a large crontab file

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1687694

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-676e120269' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 30
Version: 1.5.4
Release: 1.fc30
Summary: Cron daemon for executing programs at set times

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