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CVE-2000-0691
medium
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.
References
http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2000-029.0.txt
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0330.html