CVE-2000-0691 Information

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.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0329.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0330.html http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-029.0.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1612