CVE-2010-0424

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Summary

CVECVE-2010-0424
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2010-02-25 19:30:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-13 04:16:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-59

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Fedorahosted Cronie All All All All
Application Paul Vixie Vixie Cron All All All All
Application Paul Vixie Vixie Cron All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
cronie "crontab" Race Condition Security Issue - Advisories - Community SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Infrastructure/Fedorahosted-retirement - Fedora Project Wiki CONFIRM git.fedorahosted.org Vendor Advisory
Bug 565809 – CVE-2010-0424 vixie-cron, cronie: Race condition by setting timestamp of user's crontab file, when editing the file CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com
Infrastructure/Fedorahosted-retirement - Fedora Project Wiki MISC git.fedorahosted.org
cronie 'crontab' Symbolic Link Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
Security Advisory SA48104 - Red Hat update for vixie-cron - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: cronie-1.4.3-4.fc12 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Fedora update for cronie - Advisories - Community SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2010-02-26Tomas HogerRed Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-0424 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.
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