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Novell NetMail File Ownership Security Issue
Secunia Advisory: SA15763
Release Date: 2005-06-21
Popularity: 8,821 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Manipulation of data
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Novell NetMail 3.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A security issue has been reported in NetMail, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to delete or replace the NetMail binaries.

The security issue is caused due to the Owner and Group ID of the files in the NetMail patches being incorrectly set to 500. This can be exploited by users with Group ID 500 or a user with User ID 500 to delete or replace the binaries.

The security issue has been reported in the Linux distribution of NetMail 3.52a, 3.52b, and 3.52c patches.

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