CVE-2010-0424

The edit_cmd function in crontab.c in (1) cronie before 1.4.4 and (2) Vixie cron (vixie-cron) allows local users to change the modification times of arbitrary files, and consequently cause a denial of service, via a symlink attack on a temporary file in the /tmp directory.

Score

CVSS 2.0 3.3 Low

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2010-02-25

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-59

Affected products

• Cronie (Fedorahosted)
• Vixie Cron (Paul Vixie)

References

• http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cronie.git?p=cronie.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9e4a8fa5f9171fb724981f53879c9b20264aeb61
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035762.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/38700
• http://secunia.com/advisories/38741
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48104
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38391
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565809