CVE-2007-1856

Publication date 18 April 2007

Last updated 17 July 2025


Ubuntu priority

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.

Status

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package Ubuntu Release Status
cron 7.04 feisty
Not affected
6.10 edgy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected