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FreeBSD Ports: qpopper
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.
Insight
Insight
The following package is affected: qpopper CVE-2005-1151 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-2005-1152 popauth.c in qpopper 4.0.5 and earlier does not properly set the umask, which may cause qpopper to create files with group or world-writable permissions.
Solution
Solution
Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://secunia.com/advisories/15475/ http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/eb29a575-3381-11da-8340-000e0c2e438a.html