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Liferea "feedlist.opml" Backup Insecure File Permissions
Secunia Advisory: SA27438
Release Date: 2007-10-30
Last Update: 2007-11-01
Popularity: 4,823 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Liferea 1.x

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Description:
A security issue has been reported in Liferea, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive information.

The security issue is caused due to incorrect file permissions being set for the "feedlist.opml" backup file. This can be exploited to retrieve feed or proxy authentication usernames and passwords.

The security issue is reported in versions prior to 1.4.6.

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