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oraclelinuxOracleELSA-2012-0304
HistoryMar 01, 2012 - 12:00 a.m.

vixie-cron security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2012-03-0100:00:00
Oracle
linux.oracle.com
5

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

[4:4.1-81]

  • 455664 adoptions of crontab orphans, forgot add buffer for list of
    orphans
  • Related: rhbz#455664
    [4:4.1-80]
  • 654961 crond process ignores the changes of user’s home directory needs
    bigger changes of code. The fix wasn’t applied, detail in comment#11.
  • Related: rhbz#249512
    [4:4.1-79]
  • CVE-2010-0424 vixie-cron, cronie: Race condition by setting timestamp
    of user’s crontab file, when editing the file
  • Resolves: rhbz#741534
    [4:4.1-78]
  • 625016 - crond requires a restart if mcstransd is stopped
  • Resolves: rhbz#625016
    [4:4.1-78]
  • 460070 entries in cronjobs in /etc/cron.d are checked for valid syntax
  • Resolves: rhbz#460070
    [4:4.1-78]
  • 455664 adoptions of crontab orphans
  • 249512 crontab should verify a user’s access to PAM cron service
  • Resolves: rhbz#455664, rhbz#249512
    [4:4.1-78]
  • 699621 and 699620 man page fix
  • 529632 service crond status return correct status
  • 480930 set correct pie options in CFLAGS and LDFLAGS
  • 476972 crontab error with @reboot entry
  • Resolves: rhbz#699621, rhbz#699620, rhbz#529632, rhbz#480930, rhbz#476972