CVE-2007-1856 in Vixie Cron

Summary

Vixie Cron before 4.1-r10 on Gentoo Linux is installed with insecure permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (cron failure) by creating hard links, which results in a failed st_nlink check in database.c.

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• Reservation: 04/04/2007
• Disclosure: 04/17/2007
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-36200 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-404 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 4.0
• EPSS: 0.00076
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-1856
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-1856
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2007-1856/