Date:         Mon, 21 May 2007 16:01:26 -0500
Reply-To:     Troy Dawson 
Sender:       Security Errata for Scientific Linux
              
From:         Troy Dawson 
Subject:      Security ERRATA for vixie-cron on SL5.x, SL4.x, SL3,x i386/x86_64
Comments: To: scientific-linux-errata@fnal.gov

Synopsis:	Moderate: vixie-cron security update
Issue date:	2007-05-17
CVE Names:	CVE-2007-1856

Raphael Marichez discovered a denial of service bug in the way 
vixie-cron verifies crontab file integrity. A local user with the 
ability to create a hardlink to /etc/crontab can prevent vixie-cron from 
executing certain system  cron jobs. (CVE-2007-1856)

SL 3.0.x

   SRPMS:
	vixie-cron-4.1-19.EL3.src.rpm
   i386:
	vixie-cron-4.1-19.EL3.i386.rpm
   x86_64:
	vixie-cron-4.1-19.EL3.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

   SRPMS:
	vixie-cron-4.1-47.EL4.src.rpm
   i386:
	vixie-cron-4.1-47.EL4.i386.rpm
   x86_64:
	vixie-cron-4.1-47.EL4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

   SRPMS:
	vixie-cron-4.1-70.el5.src.rpm
   i386:
	vixie-cron-4.1-70.el5.i386.rpm
   x86_64:
	vixie-cron-4.1-70.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson