CVE-2000-0691: Gert Doering Mgetty

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Gert Doering Mgetty: version 1.1.19 only; version 1.1.20 only; version 1.1.21 only

Published 2000-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.