metadata/glsa/glsa-200606-07.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200606-07">
  <title>Vixie Cron: Privilege Escalation</title>
  <synopsis>
    Vixie Cron allows local users to execute programs as root.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">vixie-cron</product>
  <announced>June 09, 2006</announced>
  <revised>June 09, 2006: 01</revised>
  <bug>134194</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-process/vixie-cron" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.1-r9</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.1-r9</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Vixie Cron is a command scheduler with extended syntax over cron.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Roman Veretelnikov discovered that Vixie Cron fails to properly
    check whether it can drop privileges accordingly if setuid() in
    do_command.c fails due to a user exceeding assigned resource limits.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    Local users can execute code with root privileges by deliberately
    exceeding their assigned resource limits and then starting a command
    through Vixie Cron. This requires resource limits to be in place on the
    machine.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Vixie Cron users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2607">CVE-2006-2607</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Wed, 07 Jun 2006 19:26:16 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed, 07 Jun 2006 20:17:38 +0000">
    frilled
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:56:58 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>