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CVE-2000-0691

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CVE-2000-0691

Published: Sep 21, 2000

Modified: Aug 8, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

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affected
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References

1612
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
20000826 Advisory: mgetty local compromise
mailing-list
x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
CSSA-2000-029.0
vendor-advisory
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