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RHSA-2006-0539: vixie

Vulnerability Assessment Summary Check for the version of the vixie packages Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment Updated vixie-cron packages that fix a privilege escalation issue are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The vixie-cron package contains the Vixie version of cron. Cron is a standard UNIX daemon that runs specified programs at scheduled times. A privilege escalation flaw was found in the way Vixie Cron runs programs vixie-cron does not properly verify an attempt to set the current process user id succeeded. It was possible for a malicious local users who exhausted certain limits to execute arbitrary commands as root via cron. (CVE-2006-2607) All users of vixie-cron should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. Solution : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0539.html Network Security Threat Level: High Networks Security ID: Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2006 Tenable Network Security

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