CVE-2005-1151 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-1151
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2005-1151

Description: qpopper 4.0.5 and earlier does not properly drop privileges before processing certain user-supplied files, which allows local users to overwrite or create arbitrary files as root.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SAID Secunia Advisory: SA15475 Secunia Advisory: SA15478 Secunia Advisory: SA15505 MISC http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90622 GENTOO http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200505-17.xml DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-728

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