Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.57089
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2006:0539
Summary:	Redhat Security Advisory RHSA-2006:0539
Description:	The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2006:0539. The vixie-cron package contains the Vixie version of cron. Cron is a standard UNIX daemon that runs specified programs at scheduled times. A privilege escalation flaw was found in the way Vixie Cron runs programs vixie-cron does not properly verify an attempt to set the current process user id succeeded. It was possible for a malicious local users who exhausted certain limits to execute arbitrary commands as root via cron. (CVE-2006-2607) All users of vixie-cron should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. Solution: Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0539.html http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important Risk factor : High
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-2607 Bugtraq: 20060525 rPSA-2006-0082-1 vixie-cron (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/435033/100/0/threaded http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200606-07.xml http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0539.html SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2006:027 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-05-32.html http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-778-1 BugTraq ID: 18108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18108 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10213 http://secunia.com/advisories/35318 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2075 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016480 http://secunia.com/advisories/20380 http://secunia.com/advisories/20388 http://secunia.com/advisories/20616 http://secunia.com/advisories/21032 http://secunia.com/advisories/21702 XForce ISS Database: vixie-cron-docommand-gain-privilege(26691) http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26691
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