CVE-2007-1856 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-1856
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_007_suse.html ST 1018081 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA24905 Secunia Advisory: SA24995 Secunia Advisory: SA25321 Secunia Advisory: SA25723 Secunia Advisory: SA26909 Secunia Advisory: SA27706 Secunia Advisory: SA27886 REDHAT http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0345.html MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:234 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-11.xml FULLDISC http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html CONFIRM http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-261.htm BID 23520

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