Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Raphael Marichez discovered a denial of service bug in how vixie-cron verifies crontab file integrity. A local user with the ability to create a hardlink to /etc/crontab could prevent vixie-cron from executing certain system cron jobs.
The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
Affected
vixie-cron on Mandriva Linux 2007.0,
Mandriva Linux 2007.0/X86_64,
Mandriva Linux 2007.1,
Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64,
Mandriva Linux 2008.0,
Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-1856 -
CVSS Base Score: 2.1
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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