CVE-2005-1151

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

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

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-728

http://secunia.com/advisories/15505

http://secunia.com/advisories/15478

http://secunia.com/advisories/15475

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90622

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3