CVE-2007-1856

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CVSS v3.1

N/A

EPSS

0.38%

Published

Apr 18, 2007

Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Public PoC / Exploit

All weaponized →

No public PoC or exploit code indexed for this CVE.

Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.

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 Products (2)

gentoo · linux

paul_vixie · vixie_cronvulnerable

References (20)

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

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

http://secunia.com/advisories/24905

http://secunia.com/advisories/24995

http://secunia.com/advisories/25321

http://secunia.com/advisories/25723

http://secunia.com/advisories/26909

http://secunia.com/advisories/27706

http://secunia.com/advisories/27886

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-11.xml

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-261.htm

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:234

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_007_suse.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23520

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018081

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3229

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11463

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

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

http://secunia.com/advisories/24905

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