[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: cronie-1.3-4.fc11

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-4300
2010-03-12 03:08:11
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Name        : cronie
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 1.3
Release     : 4.fc11
URL         : https://fedorahosted.org/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:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0424
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Mar  9 2010 Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 1.3-4
- CVE-2010-0424 Race condition by setting timestamp of user's crontab file
* Fri Sep 25 2009 Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 1.3-3
- 477100 apply patch also in this branch
* Thu Jun 18 2009 Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 1.3-2
- 506560 check return value of access
* Mon Apr 27 2009 Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 1.3-1
- new release
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #565809 - CVE-2010-0424 vixie-cron, cronie: Race condition by setting timestamp of user's crontab file, when editing the file
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565809
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update cronie' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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