CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-1151

7.2 HIGH Published 2005-05-25 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-05-25
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

Affected configurations

• debian qpopper (<= 4.0.4) • debian qpopper 4.0.5

References