Check BugTraq ID 1598 for more details. Jukka Lahtinen minicom . An installation-dependent vulnerability has been reported in minicom on Red Hat 6.1 and 6.2 and Slackware 7.0. SuSE and Linux-Mandrake are reported not vulnerable. This bug will allow the creation of files with ownership uucp.
Vulnerable systems running uucp can have system configuration files overwritten.
Originally reported by Michal Zalewski, more information can be found via BugTraq ID 1599 . CGI scripts . Netauth web-based email , older versions could be used to read arbitrary files on the system. Downloading the current version is reported to fix this problem. Account Manager from the CGI Script Center also can be exploited to gain administrator privileges.