Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that
gfax, a GNOME frontend for fax programs, uses temporary files in an
unsafe manner which may be exploited to execute arbitrary commands
with the privileges of the root user
For the old stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed
in version 042-11sarge1
The stable distr ...
source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/24780/info
GFAX is prone to a vulnerability that lets local attackers execute arbitrary commands with superuser privileges Successful attacks will result in the complete compromise of affected computers
GFAX 076 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected
while true; do echo "*/1 * * * * root ...
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