CVE-2000-0691

First published: Thu Sep 21 2000(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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