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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201311-04">
+ <title>Vixie cron: Denial of service</title>
+ <synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in Vixie cron, allowing local
+ attackers to conduct symlink attacks.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">vixie-cron</product>
+ <announced>2013-11-07</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2013-11-07</revised>
+ <bug>308055</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="sys-process/vixie-cron" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">4.1-r14</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">4.1-r14</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>Paul Vixie’s cron daemon, a fully featured crond implementation.</p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>Vixie cron contains a race condition relating to atime and mtime values
+ of temporary files.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A local attacker could change the modification time of files, possibly
+ resulting in a Denial of Service condition via a symlink attack.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All Vixie cron users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r14"
+ </code>
+
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-0424">CVE-2010-0424</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2013-11-04T03:18:24Z">
+ BlueKnight
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2013-11-07T01:56:36Z">
+ BlueKnight
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>