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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2010-0424

low Nessus Plugin ID 217144

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - The edit_cmd function in crontab.c in (1) cronie before 1.4.4 and (2) Vixie cron (vixie-cron) allows local users to change the modification times of arbitrary files, and consequently cause a denial of service, via a symlink attack on a temporary file in the /tmp directory. (CVE-2010-0424)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-0424

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 217144

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2010_0424.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/3/2025

Updated: 9/4/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.06

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-0424

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vixie-cron, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cronie-noanacron, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cronie, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cronie-anacron

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/24/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0424