A message attributed to Vincent Lefevre, published on September 28, 2026 in the oss-sec feed, discusses a Debian bug report identified as 1144850. The report’s title says crontab(1) silently truncates file-path arguments with 100 or more characters.
The comment questions two points: whether the stated character count is correct and whether truncation is actually silent. According to the excerpt, when the file exists, the effect may cause a different crontab file to be used. The supplied message ends before fully explaining the case.
To investigate similar behavior, record the cron version, the path used, and how you observed the result. In a test environment, compare paths below and above the reported limit, and check whether the expected file is being read; avoid testing with production jobs.
Consult the Debian report and the original oss-sec message to verify context, reproduction steps, and any fixes. The supplied material is machine-translated and incomplete; it does not establish whether the bug was confirmed or resolved.