Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Mandriva, which could be exploited by local attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an error in vixie-cron. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-1412

Affected Products

Mandriva Linux 2007.0
Mandriva Linux 2007.1
Mandriva Linux 2008.0

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

Mandriva Linux 2007.0:
123b5f8f021f12d910a4348e9a557ec7 2007.0/i586/vixie-cron-4.1-9.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
682d18fa3ebec317be382fb40c140745 2007.0/SRPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-9.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.0/X86_64:
e797aa1deb1aa45a3ac31967341d4271 2007.0/x86_64/vixie-cron-4.1-9.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
682d18fa3ebec317be382fb40c140745 2007.0/SRPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-9.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.1:
901d627bc295b396d1b9d331a7b538cd 2007.1/i586/vixie-cron-4.1-9.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
e08498cdcb6f66fd167e6cd22d6c7c6b 2007.1/SRPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-9.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64:
dba8945a07a6c835bc58d33884b1f50b 2007.1/x86_64/vixie-cron-4.1-9.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
e08498cdcb6f66fd167e6cd22d6c7c6b 2007.1/SRPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-9.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.0:
1b273c4f69665e22bf56f3da76c52556 2008.0/i586/vixie-cron-4.1-9.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
148738b227103c0b1ee25e5f6ca747eb 2008.0/SRPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-9.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64:
ebcf2fcf7c88dd88688eb4aa9f8a6bb2 2008.0/x86_64/vixie-cron-4.1-9.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
148738b227103c0b1ee25e5f6ca747eb 2008.0/SRPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-9.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4075
http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/security-announce/2007-12/msg00001.php

ChangeLog

2007-12-04 : Initial release

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