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GLSA-201311-04 : Vixie cron: Denial of Service

low Nessus Plugin ID 70779

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Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201311-04 (Vixie cron: Denial of Service)

 Vixie cron contains a race condition relating to atime and mtime values of temporary files.
 Impact :

 A local attacker could change the modification time of files, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition via a symlink attack.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Vixie cron users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r14'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201311-04

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 70779

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-201311-04.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Published: 11/7/2013

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:vixie-cron, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/7/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0424

BID: 38391

CWE: 59

GLSA: 201311-04