Re: Security: Vixie Cron.

["Scott Tyson" <tysons deepwell com>]

Is vixie cron the cron daemon that runs on a default RH 6.0 system?

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Ghens <michael spconnect com>
To: <redhat-list redhat com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 1:26 PM
Subject: Security: Vixie Cron.


> Tried an exploit off of BUGTRAQ on a RH6.0 intel system,
> vixie-cron-3.0.1-38, which was packaged for the RH6.0 updates on Fri
Aug
> 27 08:06:16 1999 still is vulneralbe to root exploit.
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> If you want to search for the message, go to securityfocus. This is
the
> header of the e-mail (less the exploit)
>
> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 05:28:04 -0700
> From: jobe <jbowie EL8 ORG>
> To: BUGTRAQ SECURITYFOCUS COM
> Subject: Crond Scooby Snacks for Everyone.
>
> Paul Vixie loves us all so much it's overflowing. For your own private
> use, standard disclaimer and transfer of responsibility to that of the
end
> user applies.  Oh yeah, and I made it semi-self cleaning just because
I
> love you guys so much.  If you want add remove(argv[0]); to the list
of
> removes to remove the exploit binary as well.
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