CVE

Id
2267  
CVE No.
CVE-2000-0691  
Status
Candidate  
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.  
Phase
Proposed (20000921)  
Votes
ACCEPT(1) Levy | MODIFY(2) Cox, Frech | NOOP(3) Christey, Cole, Wall  
Comments
Frech> XF:mgetty-faxrunq-symlink | Christey> ADDREF XF:mgetty-faxrunq-symlink | ADDREF URL:http://xforce.iss.net/static/5159.php | ADDREF REDHAT:RHSA-2000:059-02 | ADDREF BUGTRAQ:20000830 Conectiva Linux Security Announcement - mgetty | ADDREF MANDRAKE:MDKSA-2000:042 | Christey> ADDREF REDHAT:RHSA-2000:059-02 | Christey> ADDREF FREEBSD:FreeBSD-SA-00:71 | ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:71.mgetty.asc | Frech> XF:mgetty-faxrunq-symlink(5159) | Cox> ADDREF REDHAT:RHSA-2000:059