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Qpopper Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA15475
Release Date: 2005-05-24
Popularity: 9,297 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Qpopper 4.x

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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Qpopper, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.

1) An error where user supplied config and trace files are processed with escalated privileges, can be exploited to create or overwrite arbitrary files.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 4.0.5. Prior versions may also be affected.

2) An unspecified error can be exploited to create group or world-writable files.

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