In the cron package through 3.0pl1-128 on Debian, and through 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2 on Ubuntu, the postinst maintainer script allows for group-crontab-to-root privilege escalation via symlink attacks against unsafe usage of the chown and chmod programs.
References
Link Resource
http://bugs.debian.org/864466 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/08/3 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038651 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00025.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00029.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-06-09T16:00:00

Updated: 2021-10-30T21:06:39

Reserved: 2017-06-09T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2017-9525

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-06-09T16:29:02.110

Modified: 2021-12-16T18:44:58.590


Link: CVE-2017-9525

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