ubuntu · CVE-2007-1856

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Priority: medium Published: 2007-04-18 03:19:00 UTC Updated: 2025-07-17 16:41:14 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2007-1856 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (cron), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): not-affected 3, needs-triage 1.

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.

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