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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RHSA-2006:0539-01 Crucial: Vixie-Cron Risk

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Calendar Grey July 12, 2006
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Debian promptly releases vital cron package patch fixing severe privilege escalation vulnerability. Safeguard your systems immediately!
Updated vixie-cron packages that fix a privilege escalation issue are now available

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.

5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

193146 - CVE-2006-2607 Jobs start from root when pam_limits enabled


6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4:

SRPMS: 84ffd65a8877af47400a731ecd1b9ee3 vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.src.rpm

i386: 96f8e56c7683001feb3f3af160e5d3bc vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.i386.rpm 2537c3d0066bfba10e271466e848abfa vixie-cron-debuginfo-4.1-44.EL4.i386.rpm

ia64: a8d8d2c094a1d9aa1e8b565633f63491 vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.ia64.rpm fbd4dd6bda2c2b4ed0b76b9decc45da8 vixie-cron-debuginfo-4.1-44.EL4.ia64.rpm

ppc: abbfe3611ef001871714d508cb12ee78 vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.ppc.rpm cfff4b167fa6cf2f1c093c9d990fea1d vixie-cron-debuginfo-4.1-44.EL4.ppc.rpm

s390: 13a5b37c0c9c360055a75c3b779603c9 vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.s390.rpm 5eddcab5c828098a1fd2e4cdd1c1ddc1 vixie-cron-debuginfo-4.1-44.EL4.s390.rpm

s390x: 869131c337de109964f8acb2e720ee33 vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.s390x.rpm 32da5254a3b569a351557547fc872556 vixie-cron-debuginfo-4.1-44.EL4.s390x.rpm

x86_64: 3d045241d3453e8bc5a6bc260320fbc9 vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.x86_64.rpm 2d30b0141ee8e242602fa70f03982713 vixie-cron-debuginfo-4.1-44.EL4.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4:

SRPMS: 84ffd65a8877af47400a731ecd1b9ee3 vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.src.rpm

i386: 96f8e56c7683001feb3f3af160e5d3bc vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.i386.rpm 2537c3d0066bfba10e271466e848abfa vixie-cron-debuginfo-4.1-44.EL4.i386.rpm

x86_64: 3d045241d3453e8bc5a6bc260320fbc9 vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.x86_64.rpm 2d30b0141ee8e242602fa70f03982713 vixie-cron-debuginfo-4.1-44.EL4.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4:

SRPMS: 84ffd65a8877af47400a731ecd1b9ee3 vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.src.rpm

i386: 96f8e56c7683001feb3f3af160e5d3bc vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.i386.rpm 2537c3d0066bfba10e271466e848abfa vixie-cron-debuginfo-4.1-44.EL4.i386.rpm

ia64: a8d8d2c094a1d9aa1e8b565633f63491 vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.ia64.rpm fbd4dd6bda2c2b4ed0b76b9decc45da8 vixie-cron-debuginfo-4.1-44.EL4.ia64.rpm

x86_64: 3d045241d3453e8bc5a6bc260320fbc9 vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.x86_64.rpm 2d30b0141ee8e242602fa70f03982713 vixie-cron-debuginfo-4.1-44.EL4.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4:

SRPMS: 84ffd65a8877af47400a731ecd1b9ee3 vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.src.rpm

i386: 96f8e56c7683001feb3f3af160e5d3bc vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.i386.rpm 2537c3d0066bfba10e271466e848abfa vixie-cron-debuginfo-4.1-44.EL4.i386.rpm

ia64: a8d8d2c094a1d9aa1e8b565633f63491 vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.ia64.rpm fbd4dd6bda2c2b4ed0b76b9decc45da8 vixie-cron-debuginfo-4.1-44.EL4.ia64.rpm

x86_64: 3d045241d3453e8bc5a6bc260320fbc9 vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.x86_64.rpm 2d30b0141ee8e242602fa70f03982713 vixie-cron-debuginfo-4.1-44.EL4.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key#package

Summary

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation Red Hat Enterprise Linux important vixie-cron

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-2607

Package List


Severity
important
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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2006:0539-01
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006:0539.html
Issue date: 2006-07-12
Updated on: 2006-07-12
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Topic

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation Red Hat Enterprise Linux important vixie-cron

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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