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Unscored USN-5259-3 1 CVE

cron regression

Published May 11, 2022 · Updated Jun 25, 2026

Summary

USN-5259-1 and USN-5259-2 fixed vulnerabilities in Cron. Unfortunately
that update was incomplete and could introduce a regression. This update
fixes the problem.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that the postinst maintainer script in Cron unsafely
handled file permissions during package install or update operations.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a privilege
escalation attack. (CVE-2017-9525)

Florian Weimer discovered that Cron incorrectly handled certain memory
operations during crontab file creation. An attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2019-9704)

It was discovered that Cron incorrectly handled user input during crontab
file creation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service. (CVE-2019-9705)

It was discovered that Cron contained a use-after-free vulnerability in
its force_rescan_user function. An attacker could possibly use this issue
to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2019-9706)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS cron 3.0pl1-128.1ubuntu1.2
Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS cron 3.0pl1-128ubuntu2+esm2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9525
  • report
    https://launchpad.net/bugs/1971895