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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200606-07">
<title>Vixie Cron: Privilege Escalation</title>
<synopsis>
Vixie Cron allows local users to execute programs as root.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">vixie-cron</product>
<announced>2006-06-09</announced>
<revised count="01">2006-06-09</revised>
<bug>134194</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="sys-process/vixie-cron" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">4.1-r9</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">4.1-r9</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
Vixie Cron is a command scheduler with extended syntax over cron.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Roman Veretelnikov discovered that Vixie Cron fails to properly
check whether it can drop privileges accordingly if setuid() in
do_command.c fails due to a user exceeding assigned resource limits.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="high">
<p>
Local users can execute code with root privileges by deliberately
exceeding their assigned resource limits and then starting a command
through Vixie Cron. This requires resource limits to be in place on the
machine.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All Vixie Cron users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9"</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2607">CVE-2006-2607</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2006-06-07T19:26:16Z">
jaervosz
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-06-07T20:17:38Z">
frilled
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-06-09T03:56:58Z">
jaervosz
</metadata>
</glsa>