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MasqMail Two Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA16883
Release Date: 2005-09-21
Popularity: 6,192 views

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

Software:MasqMail 0.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Jens Steube has reported two vulnerabilities in MasqMail, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

1) An error in the sanitization of email addresses when the sending of a message fails, may be exploited to execute arbitrary commands with privileges of the mail user.

2) An unspecified error in the handling of log files may be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

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