CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-1856

2.1 LOW Published 2007-04-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-04-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• paul vixie vixie cron (<= 4.1)

References