similar to: dependency conflict on vixie-cron update

Hi, Recently there have been advisories and patches for SuSE and RedHat (and probably a few others) regarding a vulnerability in Vixie Cron. The details say that there's insufficient checking of the return value of setuid, which can lead to priviledge escalation and lets users run cron jobs with root priviledges. As far as I know, FreBSD also uses Vixie Cron (at least the cron(8) manpage

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0345 vixie-cron security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0345.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-19.EL3.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-19.EL3.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0345 vixie-cron security update for CentOS 3 x86_64: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0345.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: updates/x86_64/RPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-19.EL3.x86_64.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-19.EL3.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 x86_64

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0117 vixie-cron security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0117.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-10.EL3.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-10.EL3.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0117 vixie-cron security update for CentOS 3 x86_64: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0117.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: updates/x86_64/RPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-10.EL3.x86_64.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-10.EL3.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 x86_64

The problem with vixie cron is wider (and more funny) than I expected. Here''s my proggy which allows hiding files of any kind and size into crontab entries (remember, quota is ignored ;-): -- cron_put -- #!/bin/bash echo "Vixie cron 3.0.1 file storage - put utlility" echo "by Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@staszic.waw.pl>" echo if [ "$1" = "" ];

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0345 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0345.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: vixie-cron-4.1-47.EL4.x86_64.rpm src: vixie-cron-4.1-47.EL4.src.rpm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0345 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0345.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: vixie-cron-4.1-47.EL4.i386.rpm src: vixie-cron-4.1-47.EL4.src.rpm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0345 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0345.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-19.EL3.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-19.EL3.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi at iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0345 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0345.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-47.EL4.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-47.EL4.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi at iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0345 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0345.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64 f8f084b455be39b5404a143a111781d6 vixie-cron-4.1-70.el5.x86_64.rpm Source: 8996fc9b53daa14704b6dca9edeb4f74 vixie-cron-4.1-70.el5.src.rpm --

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0345 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0345.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386 c775ebad426971e3c2df5a62b1d91960 vixie-cron-4.1-70.el5.i386.rpm Source: 8996fc9b53daa14704b6dca9edeb4f74 vixie-cron-4.1-70.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0539 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0539.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi at iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0539 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0539.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.x86_64.rpm src: vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.src.rpm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size:

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0539 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0539.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.i386.rpm src: vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.src.rpm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0117 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0117.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-10.EL3.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-10.EL3.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi at iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/ -------------- next part -------------- A

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2005:361 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-361.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-36.EL4.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-36.EL4.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi@iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/ -------------- next part -------------- A

Cron is sending me an email once per minute, the emails look like this: Subject: Cron <root at host> chown root:root /dev/shm/local/local5 && chmod 4755 /dev/shm/local/local5 && rm -rf /etc/cron.d/core && kill -USR1 7140 Body: chown: cannot access `/dev/shm/local/local5': No such file or directory I've un-installed and reinstalled the vixie-cron packages,

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0345 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0345.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-47.EL4.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi at iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0345 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0345.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/vixie-cron-4.1-19.EL3.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi at iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment