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Fedora Core 6 : vixie-cron-4.1-69.fc6 (2007-662)

high Nessus Plugin ID 25865

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

By creating a hardlink to /etc/crontab, cron will stop executing the /etc/crontab file and deposit an error message in /var/log/cron.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected vixie-cron and / or vixie-cron-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9298b9e8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 25865

File Name: fedora_2007-662.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/13/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:vixie-cron-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:vixie-cron

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 8/8/2007

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2007-662