Public bug reported:
On installation of cron on a new system, or (I expect) an upgrade with
no user crontab files the following is printed:
Setting up cron (3.0pl1-128.1ubuntu1.1) ...
stat: cannot stat '*': No such file or directory
stat: cannot stat '*': No such file or directory
stat: cannot stat '*': No such file or directory
Warning: * is not a regular file!
This is related to the fix for CVE-2017-9525 introduced in
3.0pl1-128.1ubuntu1.1. The for loop at line 66 of cron.postinst needs to
have a guard like the following added to it:
[ "$tab_name" = "*" ] && continue
We have observed this with Bionic, I haven't checked any other Ubuntu
releases.
Cheers,
Andrew
** Affects: cron (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Warning messages from stat printed on installation with no user
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