Description
Metamail before 2.7-7.2 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via an e-mail message containing a uuencoded attachment that specifies the full pathname for the file to be modified, which is processed by uuencode in Metamail scripts such as sun-audio-file.
References
- metamail-file-creation(1677) vdb-entry
- 19971024 Vulnerability in metamail mailing-list