CVE-2019-9705

vixie-cron: memory consumption DoS via a large crontab file

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · March 8, 2019

Updated · January 22, 2026

Description

Vixie Cron before the 3.0pl1-133 Debian package allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large crontab file because an unlimited number of lines is accepted.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption