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openSUSE Security Update : cron (cron-2026)

low Nessus Plugin ID 45101

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update of cron fixes a race condition in crontab that can be used to change the time-stamp of arbitrary files while editing the crontab entry. CVE-2010-0424: CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.6 Additionally the return value of initgroups() is verified now.

Solution

Update the affected cron package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580800

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 45101

File Name: suse_11_2_cron-100219.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/19/2010

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: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cron, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.2

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/19/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0424

CWE: 59