Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting cron package, versions <3.0pl1-128+deb9u2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-CRON-340223
  • published12 Mar 2019
  • disclosed12 Mar 2019

Introduced: 12 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-9705  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 cron to version 3.0pl1-128+deb9u2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cron package and not the cron package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 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