CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-0424
3.3 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-02-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
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 configurations
• fedorahosted cronie (<= 1.4.3)
• paul vixie vixie cron
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cronie.git?p=cronie.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9e4a8fa5f9171fb724981f53879c9b20264aeb61 git.fedorahosted.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035762.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38700 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38741 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48104 secunia.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38391 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565809 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cronie.git?p=cronie.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9e4a8fa5f9171fb724981f53879c9b20264aeb61 git.fedorahosted.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035762.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38700 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38741 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48104 secunia.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38391 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565809 bugzilla.redhat.com