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Cocktail Exposure of Administrator Password
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA15201
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Release Date:
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2005-05-02
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Last Update:
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2005-05-03
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Exposure of sensitive information
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Cocktail 3.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2005-1387 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
sonderling has reported a security issue in Cocktail, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive information.
The problem is that the administrator password is insecurely passed to the sudo process via the command line and may be exposed to other users.
The security issue has been reported in version 3.5.4. Prior versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Update to version 3.6.
http://www.macosxcocktail.com/download.html
Provided and/or discovered by:
sonderling
Changelog:
2005-05-03: Added CVE reference.
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