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TITLE:
Qpopper Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15475

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CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Qpopper 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/1264/

DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Qpopper, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with
escalated privileges.

1) An error where user supplied config and trace files are processed
with escalated privileges, can be exploited to create or overwrite
arbitrary files.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 4.0.5. Prior versions
may also be affected.

2) An unspecified error can be exploited to create group or
world-writable files.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 4.0.6.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) Jens Steube
2) Reported by vendor

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Gentoo:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200505-17.xml

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