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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="201311-04">
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<title>Vixie cron: Denial of service</title>
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<synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in Vixie cron, allowing local
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attackers to conduct symlink attacks.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">vixie-cron</product>
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<announced>2013-11-07</announced>
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<revised count="1">2013-11-07</revised>
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<bug>308055</bug>
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<access>local</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="sys-process/vixie-cron" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">4.1-r14</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">4.1-r14</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>Paul Vixie’s cron daemon, a fully featured crond implementation.</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>Vixie cron contains a race condition relating to atime and mtime values
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of temporary files.
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="normal">
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<p>A local attacker could change the modification time of files, possibly
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resulting in a Denial of Service condition via a symlink attack.
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</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>All Vixie cron users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r14"
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</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-0424">CVE-2010-0424</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2013-11-04T03:18:24Z">
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BlueKnight
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</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2013-11-07T01:56:36Z">
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BlueKnight
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</metadata>
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</glsa>
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