Vulnerability in Gert Doering Mgetty

CVE-2000-0691

The faxrunq and faxrunqd in the mgetty package allows local users to create or modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack which creates a symlink in from /var/spool/fax/outgoing/.last_run to the target file.

EPSS: 0.009 (56.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

References

  • cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
  • cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
  • cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, x_refsource_CALDERA, vendor-advisory, Patch)