CVE-2000-0691

Public Date:
2000-08-25
Bugzilla:
1616502: CVE-2000-0691 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2000-0691 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Linux 6.1 RHSA-2000:059 2000-09-07
Red Hat Linux 6.0 RHSA-2000:059 2000-09-07
Red Hat Linux 5.2 RHSA-2000:059 2000-09-07
Red Hat Linux 6.2 RHSA-2000:059 2000-09-07

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