CVE-2000-0691

Description

From CVE.org

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.

Statement

This issue was fixed in the following products:

  • Red Hat Linux 5.2 - RHSA-2000:059 (2000-09-07)
  • Red Hat Linux 6.0 - RHSA-2000:059 (2000-09-07)
  • Red Hat Linux 6.1 - RHSA-2000:059 (2000-09-07)
  • Red Hat Linux 6.2 - RHSA-2000:059 (2000-09-07)

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