CVE-2010-0424

LOW 3.3CVE-2010-0424 · Published 25/02/2010 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2010-0424 is a LOW (CVSS 3.3) vulnerability affecting cronie (fedorahosted).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.35%, higher than 28.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
cronie fedorahosted	`≤ 1.4.3`	No fix yet

Description

The edit_cmd function in crontab.c in (1) cronie before 1.4.4 and (2) Vixie cron (vixie-cron) allows local users to change the modification times of arbitrary files, and consequently cause a denial of service, via a symlink attack on a temporary file in the /tmp directory.

References

git.fedorahosted.org/git/cronie.git
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035762.html
secunia.com/advisories/38700 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/38741 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/48104
securityfocus.com/bid/38391
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi

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