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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 201311-04
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 Severity: Normal
    Title: Vixie cron: Denial of Service
     Date: November 07, 2013
     Bugs: #308055
       ID: 201311-04

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Synopsis
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A vulnerability has been found in Vixie cron, allowing local attackers
to conduct symlink attacks.

Background
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Paul Vixie's cron daemon, a fully featured crond implementation.

Affected packages
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     Package              /     Vulnerable     /            Unaffected
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  1  sys-process/vixie-cron      < 4.1-r14                 >= 4.1-r14

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

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

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Vixie cron users should upgrade to the latest version:

  # emerge --sync
  # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r14"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2010-0424
      http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-0424

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201311-04.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2013 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5