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IBM Lotus Notes Client for Linux Insecure File Permissions Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA27860  
Release Date: 2007-11-29
Last Update: 2008-01-02

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

Software:IBM Lotus Notes 8.x

CVE reference:CVE-2007-6594 (Secunia mirror)

This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


Description:
Some security issues have been reported in Lotus Notes for Linux, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

1) Files extracted from the installation kit archive are given world-writable permissions. This can be exploited to modify the installation kit and place malicious content, which is then later executed when the installer is run.

2) An error exists in setup.sh contained within the installation kit when setting permissions for the "installdata" binary. This can be exploited to replace the "installdata" file with a malicious binary, which is then later executed when setup.sh is run.

The security issues are reported in version 8.0. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Restrict access to trusted users only (see the vendor's advisory for details).

The vendor will reportedly fix the security issues with the release of version 8.0.1.

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Linux Magazine.

Changelog:
2008-01-02: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
Linux Magazine:
http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/...r_linux_insecure_installation_routine

IBM:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21289273



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