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
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27886 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3229 ↗
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_007_suse.html ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018081 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24995 ↗
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-261.htm ↗
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-11.xml ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25321 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11463 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25723 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:234 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26909 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23520 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27706 ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0345.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24905 ↗