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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2007-1856: Vixie Cron: Denial of service

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2007-1856: Vixie Cron: Denial of service

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/17/2007
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
05/28/2021

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-process-vixie-cron

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