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Bug 163888

Summary:	CAN-2005-1038 vixie-cron information leak
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Jason Vas Dias <jvdias>
Component:	vixie-cron	Assignee:	Jason Vas Dias <jvdias>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2005-361	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On:	162022
Bug Blocks:	156322

Description Jason Vas Dias 2005-07-21 19:37:43 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #162022 +++

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #154920 +++

crontab in Vixie cron 4.1, when running with the -e option, allows local users
to read the cron files of other users by changing the file being edited to a
symlink.  NOTE: there is insufficient information to know whether this is a
duplicate of CVE-2001-0235.

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/395093

Comment 6 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-10-05 12:35:17 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 the 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/RHSA-2005-361.html