Gentoo: GLSA-201311-04: Vixie cron: Denial of Service
Summary
Vixie cron contains a race condition relating to atime and mtime values of temporary files.
Resolution
All Vixie cron users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r14"
References
[ 1 ] CVE-2010-0424 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-0424
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201311-04
Concerns
Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.
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Synopsis
A vulnerability has been found in Vixie cron, allowing local attackersto conduct symlink attacks.
Background
Paul Vixie's cron daemon, a fully featured crond implementation.
Affected Packages
------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 sys-process/vixie-cron < 4.1-r14 >= 4.1-r14
Impact
===== A local attacker could change the modification time of files, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition via a symlink attack.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.