CVE-2000-0691

published 2000-10-20

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…

Priority P4 11 low 2.1 CVSS 2.0

AV L AC L Au N C N I P A N

EXPLOIT

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.

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
gert_doering	mgetty	—	—
gert_doering	mgetty	—	—
gert_doering	mgetty	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 2.1 LOW AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

vendor_redhat 2.1 LOW

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