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Lotus Notes "notes.ini" Insecure Default Permissions
Secunia Advisory: SA10566
Release Date: 2004-01-08
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Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Manipulation of data
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:IBM Lotus Notes 6.x

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Description:
l0om has reported a security issue in Lotus Notes for Linux, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to manipulate information in a configuration file.

The configuration file "notesdata/notes.ini" is by default installed with "666" permissions granting anyone read and write privileges. This can be exploited to manipulate critical configuration parameters.

The problem has been reported in version 6.0.2. Other versions may also be affected.

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