[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: cronie-1.4.3-4.fc12

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Wed Feb 24 06:12:41 UTC 2010


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-2751
2010-02-24 04:56:57
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Name        : cronie
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 1.4.3
Release     : 4.fc12
URL         : https://fedorahosted.org/cronie
Summary     : Cron daemon for executing programs at set times
Description :
Cronie contains the standard UNIX daemon crond that runs specified programs at
scheduled times and related tools. It is a fork of the original vixie-cron and
has security and configuration enhancements like the ability to use pam and
SELinux.

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Update Information:

CVE-2010-0424 vixie-cron, cronie: Race condition by setting timestamp of user's
crontab file, when editing the file .
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Feb 19 2010 Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 1.4.3-4
- 565809 CVE-2010-0424 Race condition by setting timestamp
* Wed Jan 20 2010 Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 1.4.3-3
- 554698  Cron jobs failing for some users with NFS mounted home directories
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #565809 - CVE-2010-0424 vixie-cron, cronie: Race condition by setting timestamp of user's crontab file, when editing the file
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565809
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update cronie' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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