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Conectiva update for vixie-cron
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA8621
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Release Date:
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2003-04-18
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Last Update:
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2003-10-06
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Popularity:
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6,623 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Conectiva Linux 6.0
Conectiva Linux 7.0
Conectiva Linux 8
Conectiva Linux 9
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Conectiva has issued updated packages for vixie-cron. These fix an old vulnerability (May 2001), which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges on a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in "crontab", since privileges aren't dropped properly before an editor is invoked when a parsing error has occured.
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