CVE-2019-9704

MEDIUM

Vixie Cron <3.0pl1-133 - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

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.

References (5)

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107373

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] 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

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cron/commit/f2525567

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6DU7HAUAQR4E4AEBPYLUV6FZ4PHKH6A2/

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0015

EPSS Percentile 36.1%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-252 CWE-476

Status published

Affected Products (4)

cron_project/cron < 3.0pl1-133

fedoraproject/fedora

debian/debian_linux

Timeline

Published Mar 12, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026