Ubuntu Security Notice 5259-1 - It was discovered that the postinst maintainer script in Cron unsafely handled file permissions during package install or update operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a privilege escalation attack. Florian Weimer discovered that Cron incorrectly handled certain memory operations during crontab file creation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
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