Bug#691275: cron: symlink races in crontab

2023-08-27 Thread Georges Khaznadar
Hello, this bug report has received no additional information for eleven years now. As Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña considered that the security issue was not confirmed and asked Jann Horn to describe a proof of concept, without being replied ... I close this bug report. Best regards,

Bug#691275: cron: symlink races in crontab

2012-10-23 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
tags 691275 moreinfo thanks On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 09:28:05PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote: > Debian's crontab contains multiple symlink races. If > crontab was setuid root (which I think it normally is), this could be used > to e.g. wipe directories (vulnerable code is in cleanup_tmp_crontab) or for

Bug#691275: cron: symlink races in crontab

2012-10-23 Thread Jann Horn
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-124 Severity: normal Tags: security Debian's crontab contains multiple symlink races. If crontab was setuid root (which I think it normally is), this could be used to e.g. wipe directories (vulnerable code is in cleanup_tmp_crontab) or for other attacks. However, as i