Detections
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CVE-2010-0424
high
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.
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565809
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38391
http://secunia.com/advisories/48104
http://secunia.com/advisories/38741
http://secunia.com/advisories/38700
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035762.html