CVE-2007-1856 describes a local denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Vixie Cron on Gentoo Linux due to insecure file permissions. An attacker can exploit this by creating hard links, causing cron to fail its st_nlink check in database.c and cease operation. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack with low complexity and a partial impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:paul_vixie:vixie_cron:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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