CVE-2019-9704

Summary

CVECVE-2019-9704
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-03-12 01:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:13:00 UTC
DescriptionVixie Cron before the 3.0pl1-133 Debian package allows local users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a large crontab file because the calloc return value is not checked.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476 | CWE-252

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cron Project Cron All All All All
Application Cron Project Cron All All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 29 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: cronie-1.5.4-1.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: cronie-1.5.4-1.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2801-1] cron security update MLIST lists.debian.org
SECURITY: DoS: Fix unchecked return of calloc() (f2525567) · Commits · Debian / cron · GitLab MISC salsa.debian.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1723-1] cron security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Malformed Request BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178874 Debian Security Update for cron (DLA 2801-1)
  • 198775 Ubuntu Security Notification for Cron Vulnerabilities (USN-5259-2)
  • 671097 EulerOS Security Update for cronie (EulerOS-SA-2019-2496)
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