fcron: Information disclosure

fcron: Information disclosure A vulnerability has been found in fcron, allowing local attackers to conduct symlink attacks. fcron 2013-11-25 2013-11-25 308075 local 3.0.5-r2 3.0.5-r2

fcron is a periodic command scheduler for Unix-based systems

The fcrontab function contains a race condition relating to symlinks.

A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to read arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the application.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All fcron users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-process/fcron-3.0.5-r2"

CVE-2010-0792 keytoaster BlueKnight