Description: Fabio Pietrosanti has reported a security issue with unknown impact in Parallels Desktop for Mac.
The security issue is caused due to /Library/StartupItems/Parallels/prl_dhcpd creating the file "/Library/Parallels/.dhcpd_configuration" with insecure file permissions (set to 666).
The security issue is reported in Parallels Desktop for Mac Build 1940. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution: Grant only trusted users to affected systems.
Provided and/or discovered by: Fabio Pietrosanti
Changelog: 2006-11-10: Added CVE reference.
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