Executive Summary

Summary
Title New version of cron released
Informations
Name DSA-024 First vendor Publication 2001-01-27
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2001-01-27
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 2.1 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

The FreeBSD team has found a bug in the way new crontabs were handled which allowed malicious users to display arbitrary crontab files on the local system. This only affects valid crontab files so can't be used to get access to /etc/shadow or something. crontab files are not especially secure anyway, as there are other ways they can leak. No passwords or similar sensitive data should be in there.

We recommend you upgrade your cron packages.

wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-024

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 024-1 (cron)
File : nvt/deb_024_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
5845 crontab Arbitrary User Crontab File Access

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2004-09-29 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-024.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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