vixie security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0539

The vixie-cron package contains the Vixie version of cron. Cron is a
standard UNIX daemon that runs specified programs at scheduled times.

A privilege escalation flaw was found in the way Vixie Cron runs programs;
vixie-cron does not properly verify an attempt to set the current process
user id succeeded. It was possible for a malicious local users who
exhausted certain limits to execute arbitrary commands as root via cron.
(CVE-2006-2607)

All users of vixie-cron should upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-July/075160.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-July/075161.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-July/075162.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-July/075178.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-July/075179.html

Affected packages:
vixie-cron

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006:0539