CVE-2007-1856

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Published: April 18, 2007 at 02:20 AM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:38 PM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorVixie Cron· also runs on 1 platform

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.4%

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Vixie Cron · Paul Vixie

95%

v ≤ 4.1

gentoo-linux (environment)

Runs on — not affected

The affected product only carries this flaw when running on these platforms. The platforms themselves are not vulnerable.

Linux · Gentoo

95%

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (17)

Mailing Listx_refsource_FULLDISC

Source: [email protected]

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT

Source: [email protected]

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0345.html