34975 : Vixie Cron on Gentoo Linux Permission Weakness Hard Link Local DoS
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Apr 16, 2007

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Description

 (Description Provided by CVE) : 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.

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 Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability

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dahn2dusq - 2008/02/21 21:17:11

This affects RHEL as well as Gentoo.

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