CVE-2007-1856 (GCVE-0-2007-1856)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-04-18 02:20 – Updated: 2024-08-07 13:13
VLAI?
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosur… mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/27886 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3229 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018081 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://secunia.com/advisories/24995 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-11.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://secunia.com/advisories/25321 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://secunia.com/advisories/25723 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://secunia.com/advisories/26909 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23520 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/27706 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0345.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://secunia.com/advisories/24905 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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