openSUSE 10 Security Update : cron (cron-1440)

high Nessus Plugin ID 27189

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

A missing check on the return value of setuid() in vixie-cron could be used by a local user to gain root privileges by exhausting resource limits and waiting for a cronjob to trigger. This is tracked by the Mitre CVE ID CVE-2006-2607.

Solution

Update the affected cron package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 27189

File Name: suse_cron-1440.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/17/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cron, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 5/29/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-2607

Detections

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