The vixie-cron package contains the Vixie version of cron. Cron is a
standard UNIX daemon that runs specified programs at scheduled times.
Raphael Marichez discovered a denial of service bug in the way vixie-cron
verifies crontab file integrity. A local user with the ability to create a
hardlink to /etc/crontab can prevent vixie-cron from executing certain
system cron jobs. (CVE-2007-1856)
All users of vixie-cron should upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to correct this issue.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RedHat | any | ia64 | vixie-cron | < 4.1-47.EL4 | vixie-cron-4.1-47.EL4.ia64.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | x86_64 | vixie-cron | < 4.1-70.el5 | vixie-cron-4.1-70.el5.x86_64.rpm |
RedHat | any | src | vixie-cron | < 4.1-47.EL4 | vixie-cron-4.1-47.EL4.src.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | ppc | vixie-cron | < 4.1-70.el5 | vixie-cron-4.1-70.el5.ppc.rpm |
RedHat | any | i386 | vixie-cron | < 4.1-47.EL4 | vixie-cron-4.1-47.EL4.i386.rpm |
RedHat | any | s390 | vixie-cron | < 4.1-19.EL3 | vixie-cron-4.1-19.EL3.s390.rpm |
RedHat | any | x86_64 | vixie-cron | < 4.1-47.EL4 | vixie-cron-4.1-47.EL4.x86_64.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | ia64 | vixie-cron | < 4.1-70.el5 | vixie-cron-4.1-70.el5.ia64.rpm |
RedHat | any | s390x | vixie-cron | < 4.1-47.EL4 | vixie-cron-4.1-47.EL4.s390x.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | i386 | vixie-cron | < 4.1-70.el5 | vixie-cron-4.1-70.el5.i386.rpm |