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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-1850 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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T13:13:41.102Z

Reserved: 2007-04-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2007-1856

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2007-04-18T03:19:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2007-1856

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2007-04-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-1856 - Bugzilla

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