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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-1772
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2006-1772

Description:
debconf in Debian GNU/Linux, when configuring mnogosearch in the mnogosearch-common 3.2.31-1 package, uses the world-readable config.dat file instead of the restricted passwords.dat for storing the cleartext database administrator password in the mnogosearch-common/database_admin_pass record, which allows local users to view the password.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA19589

MISC
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=361775

BID
  17477


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