Vulnerability CVE-2007-1856
Published: 2007-04-17   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Paul vixie -> Vixie cron 

 References:
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3229
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23520
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-11.xml
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11463
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018081
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_007_suse.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:234
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-261.htm
http://secunia.com/advisories/27886
http://secunia.com/advisories/27706
http://secunia.com/advisories/26909
http://secunia.com/advisories/25723
http://secunia.com/advisories/25321
http://secunia.com/advisories/24995
http://secunia.com/advisories/24905
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0345.html
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html
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