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CVE-2005-1151

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2005-11-07 qpopper -- multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2005-1151
Phase Assigned(20050418)

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.

References

Source Reference
DEBIAN DSA-728
GENTOO GLSA-200505-17
MISC http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90622
SECUNIA 15475
SECUNIA 15478
SECUNIA 15505

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