Description
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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
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n/aaffected
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565809 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38700 ↗
- 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/38741 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48104 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38391 ↗