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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-2607
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2006-2607

Description:
do_command.c in Vixie cron (vixie-cron) 4.1 does not check the return code of a setuid call, which might allow local users to gain root privileges if setuid fails in cases such as PAM failures or resource limits, as originally demonstrated by a program that exceeds the process limits as defined in /etc/security/limits.conf.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26691

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-778-1

SUSE
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-05-32.html

ST
  1016480

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA20380
  Secunia Advisory: SA20388
  Secunia Advisory: SA35318
  Secunia Advisory: SA20616
  Secunia Advisory: SA21032
  Secunia Advisory: SA21702

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0539.html

OVAL
  http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10213

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200606-07.xml

CONFIRM
  http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-168.htm
  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134194

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/435033/100/0/threaded

BID
  18108


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