Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-9706 - Use After Free vulnerability in Debian Cron 3.0
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Vixie Cron before the 3.0pl1-133 Debian package allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and daemon crash) because of a force_rescan_user error.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 97 | |
| OS | 2 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
| NASL family | Debian Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | DEBIAN_DLA-1723.NASL |
| description | Various security problems have been discovered in Debian |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 123017 |
| published | 2019-03-25 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/123017 |
| title | Debian DLA-1723-1 : cron security update |
References
- https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cron/commit/40791b93
- https://packages.qa.debian.org/c/cron/news/20190311T170403Z.html
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=809167
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00025.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00029.html