Debian Security Advisory DSA 079-2 (uucp)

The remote host is missing an update to uucp announced via advisory DSA 079-2. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb0792.nasl 6616 2017-07-07 12:10:49Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 079-2 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2007 E-Soft Inc...

CVE-2001-0873

The CVE-2001-0873 issue affects Taylor UUCP’s uuxqt, where long command-line options are not properly filtered, enabling a local user to gain privileges by invoking uux with a malicious --config file. Public documents confirm the vulnerability primarily as a local-exploit in uuxqt, with Debian (u...

CVE-2001-0873

uuxqt in Taylor UUCP package does not properly remove dangerous long options, which allows local users to gain privileges by calling uux and specifying an alternate configuration file with the --config option...