FKIE_CVE-2010-0424

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2010-02-25 19:30 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:16
Severity
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cronie.git?p=cronie.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9e4a8fa5f9171fb724981f53879c9b20264aeb61
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035762.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/38700Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/38741Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/48104
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38391
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565809
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cronie.git?p=cronie.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9e4a8fa5f9171fb724981f53879c9b20264aeb61
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035762.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/38700Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/38741Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/48104
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38391
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565809
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
fedorahosted cronie *
paul_vixie vixie_cron *
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