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TITLE:
Novell NetMail File Ownership Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15763

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15763/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Manipulation of data

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Novell NetMail 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/1530/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in NetMail, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to delete or replace the NetMail binaries.

The security issue is caused due to the Owner and Group ID of the
files in the NetMail patches being incorrectly set to 500.  This can
be exploited by users with Group ID 500 or a user with User ID 500 to
delete or replace the binaries.

The security issue has been reported in the Linux distribution of
NetMail 3.52a, 3.52b, and 3.52c patches.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.52C1.
http://support.novell.com/servlet/filedownload/sec/pub/netmail352c1_lin.tgz

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Novell:
http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/2971688.htm

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