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<glsa id="200505-17">
  <title>Qpopper: Multiple Vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Qpopper contains two vulnerabilities allowing an attacker to overwrite
    arbitrary files and create files with insecure permissions.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">qpopper</product>
  <announced>May 23, 2005</announced>
  <revised>May 23, 2005: 01</revised>
  <bug>90622</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-mail/qpopper" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.0.5-r3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.0.5-r3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Qpopper is a widely used server for the POP3 protocol.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Jens Steube discovered that Qpopper doesn't drop privileges to
    process local files from normal users (CAN-2005-1151). The upstream
    developers discovered that Qpopper can be forced to create group or
    world writeable files (CAN-2005-1152).
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A malicious local attacker could exploit Qpopper to overwrite
    arbitrary files as root or create new files which are group or world
    writeable.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Qpopper users should upgrade to the latest available version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-mail/qpopper-4.0.5-r3&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1151">CAN-2005-1151</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1152">CAN-2005-1152</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 10 May 2005 16:31:30 +0000">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 23 May 2005 19:25:37 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>