CVE-2005-1151

First published: Wed May 25 2005(Updated: )

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.

Credit: security@debian.org

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