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Scientific Linux Vixie-Cron: CVE-2007-1856 Moderate Denial Of Service

Calendar May 21, 2007 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory moderate denial of service vixie-cron scientific linux
Moderate: vixie-cron security update 
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
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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