Resource Exhaustion Affecting cronie package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-CRONIE-1949864
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed8 Mar 2019

Introduced: 8 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-9705  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:8 cronie.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cronie package and not the cronie package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Vixie Cron before the 3.0pl1-133 Debian package allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large crontab file because an unlimited number of lines is accepted.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1