Advisories ยป MGASA-2019-0157

Updated cronie packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 12 May 2019
Modification date: 12 May 2019
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2019-9704 , CVE-2019-9705

Description

Updated cronie packages fix security vulnerabilities:

Cronie before 1.5.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service
(daemon crash) via a large crontab file because the calloc return value
is not checked (CVE-2019-9704).

Cronie before 1.5.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service
(memory consumption) via a large crontab file because an unlimited number
of lines is accepted (CVE-2019-9705).
                

References

SRPMS

6/core