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Re: CVE id request: maildrop


From: Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:42:36 -0500 (EST)

----- "Steffen Joeris" <steffen.joeris () skolelinux de> wrote:

Christoph Anton Mitterer discovered that maildrop, a mail delivery agent
with filtering abilities, is prone to a privilege escalation issue that
grants a user root group privileges.


The issue occurs when invoking maildrop -d, which keeps the root group
privileges on the mailbox rather than changing them to the users gid.

[0]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=564601

Use CVE-2010-0301.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB


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