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CVE-2019-9706

vixie-cron: use-after-free resulting in dos

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7

CVSS 3.0

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Published · March 8, 2019

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

Vixie Cron before the 3.0pl1-133 Debian package allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and daemon crash) because of a force_rescan_user error.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of vixie-cron as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as they did not include the vulnerable code. This issue did not affect the versions of cronie as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 8 as they did not include the vulnerable code.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 7
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-416 · Use After Free