openSUSE Security Update : cron (cron-2026)

This update of cron fixes a race condition in crontab that can be used to change the time-stamp of arbitrary files while editing the crontab entry. CVE-2010-0424: CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.6 Additionally the return value of initgroups is verified now. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security,...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : cron vulnerability (USN-778-1)

It was discovered that cron did not properly check the return code of the setgid and initgroups system calls. A local attacker could use this to escalate group privileges. Please note that cron versions 3.0pl1-64 and later were already patched to address the more serious setuid check referred to ...