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Posted on 08 November 2013
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201311-04
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Severity: Normal
Title: Vixie cron: Denial of Service
Date: November 07, 2013
Bugs: #308055
ID: 201311-04
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Synopsis
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A vulnerability has been found in Vixie cron, allowing local attackers
to conduct symlink attacks.
Background
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Paul Vixie's cron daemon, a fully featured crond implementation.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 sys-process/vixie-cron < 4.1-r14 >= 4.1-r14
Description
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Vixie cron contains a race condition relating to atime and mtime values
of temporary files.
Impact
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A local attacker could change the modification time of files, possibly
resulting in a Denial of Service condition via a symlink attack.
Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
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All Vixie cron users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r14"
References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2010-0424
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-0424
Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201311-04.xml
Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.
License
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Copyright 2013 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).
The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5
