RH 6.1 / 6.2 minicom vulnerability

[Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf () DIONE IDS PL>]

On RedHat 6.1 and RedHat 6.2 boxes (I haven't found other distributions
vulnerable):

@(#)Minicom V1.83.0 (compiled Mar  7 2000)(c) Miquel van Smoorenburg

[lcamtuf@nimue lcamtuf]$ minicom -C foo
minicom: there is no global configuration file /etc/minirc.dfl
Ask your sysadm to create one (with minicom -s).

[lcamtuf@nimue lcamtuf]$ ls -l foo
-rw-rw-r--   1 lcamtuf  uucp            0 Aug 18 12:21 foo
    ^^                  ^^^^

Any file can be created anywhere with uucp privledges - it will follow
symlinks. Not nice on systems running uucp services.

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