Bug 395021

Summary: Make crontab a PIE
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Kevin Graham <kgraham>
Component: vixie-cronAssignee: Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 4.0CC: dkovalsk, riek, rvokal
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Description Kevin Graham 2007-11-21 23:31:53 UTC 
Description of problem:

Bug 108414 took care of crond, but crontab is not yet a PIE. Even though its not
long-running, it is SUID and user controlled, so presumably it should be rebuilt.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vixie-cron-4.1-49.EL4

How reproducible:
$ eu-readelf -h /usr/bin/crontab | grep Type
Comment 1 Marcela Mašláňová 2007-11-22 08:21:13 UTC 
Easy fix: adding -fpie option for crontab
Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2008-02-01 18:59:35 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion, but this component is not scheduled to be updated in
the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. If you would like
this request to be reviewed for the next minor release, ask your
support representative to set the next rhel-x.y flag to "?".
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2009-02-04 12:17:24 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0025.html