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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2019-7104a00054
2019-03-21 14:39:53.476593
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Name : cronie
Product : Fedora 29
Version : 1.5.4
Release : 1.fc29
URL :
https://github.com/cronie-crond/cronie
Summary : Cron daemon for executing programs at set times
Description :
Cronie contains the standard UNIX daemon crond that runs specified programs at
scheduled times and related tools. It is a fork of the original vixie-cron and
has security and configuration enhancements like the ability to use pam and
SELinux.
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Update Information:
Minor security and bugfix update to version 1.5.4.
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Mar 18 2019 Tom���� Mr��z <tmraz(a)redhat.com> - 1.5.4-1
- new upstream release 1.5.4 with regression fix
* Fri Mar 15 2019 Tom���� Mr��z <tmraz(a)redhat.com> - 1.5.3-1
- new upstream release 1.5.3 fixing CVE-2019-9704 and CVE-2019-9705
* Thu Jan 31 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 1.5.2-5
- Rebuilt for
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild
* Fri Nov 30 2018 Tom���� Mr��z <tmraz(a)redhat.com> - 1.5.2-4
- Do not hard-require systemd as crond is used in containers without
systemd (#1654659)
* Wed Oct 31 2018 Tom���� Mr��z <tmraz(a)redhat.com> - 1.5.2-3
- use role from the current context for system crontabs (#1639381)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1687688 - CVE-2019-9704 vixie-cron: calloc return value resulting in remote
dos
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1687688
[ 2 ] Bug #1687694 - CVE-2019-9705 vixie-cron: dos(memory consumption) via a large
crontab file
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1687694
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-7104a00054' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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