CVE-2016-3992

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-07-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-284

Description

cronic before 3 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) cronic.out.$$, (2) cronic.err.$$, or (3) cronic.trace.$$ file in /tmp.

Affected products

Cronic Project Cronic: 2
Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00013.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/09/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/10/2
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=820331
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00013.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/09/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/10/2
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=820331

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