Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:201795250000000
Revision Date:2017-06-09Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-9525 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - low.
Description: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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-9525
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) is installed.
  • AND cron: while related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore this issue (note: 'reached end-of-life').
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