Bug 565809 (CVE-2010-0424)

Summary:	CVE-2010-0424 vixie-cron, cronie: Race condition by setting timestamp of user's crontab file, when editing the file
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	kreilly, mmaslano, psklenar, security-response-team, vdanen
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2012-02-21 09:33:15 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	566498, 566501, 741534
Bug Blocks:	742493

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-02-16 11:54:10 UTC

Race condition was found in the way vixie-cron and cronie
used to set up timestamp (modification time) for crontab
file of the individual user by editing the file. A local
attacker could use this flaw to conduct unintended changes
of timestamp (modification time) value against various
system files, potentially leading to denial of their service.

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting this issue.

Comment 5 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-02-16 12:32:55 UTC

This issue affects the versions of the vixie-cron package, 
as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.

This issue affects the versions of the cronie package,
as shipped with Fedora release of 11 and 12.

Comment 8 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-02-17 13:47:47 UTC

CVE-2010-0424 has been assigned for this.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2010-02-19 07:03:44 UTC

cronie-1.4.3-4.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cronie-1.4.3-4.fc12

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2010-02-19 07:18:06 UTC

cronie-1.4.3-4.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cronie-1.4.3-4.fc12

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2010-02-19 08:56:02 UTC

cronie-1.4.4-1.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cronie-1.4.4-1.fc13

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2010-02-24 06:12:38 UTC

cronie-1.4.3-4.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 16 Vincent Danen 2010-02-25 20:45:05 UTC

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:

http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

Comment 17 Fedora Update System 2010-03-05 03:33:12 UTC

cronie-1.4.4-1.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 18 Fedora Update System 2010-03-10 13:26:21 UTC

cronie-1.3-4.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cronie-1.3-4.fc11

Comment 19 Fedora Update System 2010-03-16 00:42:38 UTC

cronie-1.3-4.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 20 Josh Bressers 2011-07-25 16:36:12 UTC

Statement:

(none)

Comment 22 errata-xmlrpc 2012-02-21 03:13:41 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2012:0304 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0304.html