CVE-2019-9704 — Vulnetix

CVE-2019-9704 PUBLISHED

Vixie Cron before the 3.0pl1-133 Debian package allows local users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a large crontab file because the calloc return value is not checked.

EPSS 0.16% · 36.1th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.16%

36.1th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS	cron	0, *, 3.0pl1-128ubuntu5
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	cron	*, 0
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS	cron	3.0pl1-128ubuntu1, 3.0pl1-127ubuntu1, 0

Exploit Intelligence

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cron/commit/f2525567 (circl)
107373 (circl)
FEDORA-2019-7104a00054 (circl)
[debian-lts-announce] 20190321 [SECURITY] [DLA 1723-1] cron security update (circl)
[debian-lts-announce] 20211030 [SECURITY] [DLA 2801-1] cron security update (circl)

Timeline

Mar 12, 2019 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
Jan 6, 2022 EPSS Score
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Sep 4, 2022 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9704 third-party-advisory
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cron/commit/f2525567 third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5259-1 vendor-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5259-2 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9704 third-party-advisory

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