CVE-2007-1856

Name	CVE-2007-1856
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
cron (PTS)	bullseye	3.0pl1-137	fixed
	bookworm	3.0pl1-162	fixed
	sid, trixie	3.0pl1-189	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
cron	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

- cron <not-affected> (Debian uses proper permission scheme)