CVE-2006-2607 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-2607
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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 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-05-32.html ST 1016480 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA21032 Secunia Advisory: SA20616 Secunia Advisory: SA20388 Secunia Advisory: SA20380 Secunia Advisory: SA21702 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0539.html GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200606-07.xml CONFIRM http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134194 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-168.htm BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/435033/100/0/threaded BID 18108

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