PT-2013-1887 · Cronie · Cronie

Vincent Danen · Published 2013-04-09 · Updated 2013-04-10 · CVE-2012-6097

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions cronie version 1.4.8

Description A file descriptor leak in cronie, when running in certain environments, might allow local users to read restricted files. This issue can be demonstrated by reading /etc/crontab.

Recommendations For cronie version 1.4.8, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-6097

Affected Products

Cronie

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6097 · Security Note
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:033 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786096 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=893661 · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8652 · Note