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Qpopper Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA15475
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Release Date:
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2005-05-24
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Popularity:
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9,297 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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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: | Qpopper 4.x
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Secunia CVSS-2 Score:
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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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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