Jens Steube discovered that while processing local files owned or
provided by a normal user privileges weren't dropped, which could
lead to the overwriting or creation of arbitrary files as root.
CAN-2005-1152
The upstream developers noticed that qpopper could be tricked to
creating group- or world-writable files.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 4.0.4-2.woody.5.
For the testing distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 4.0.5-4sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed in
version 4.0.5-4sarge1.
We recommend that you upgrade your qpopper package.
Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
...
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