CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0691

2.1 LOW Published 2000-10-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-10-20
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.

Affected configurations

• gert doering mgetty 1.1.19 • gert doering mgetty 1.1.20 • gert doering mgetty 1.1.21

References