Maildrop Lockmail Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:14696

Info

Maildrop Lockmail Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 14696
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2005-2655
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Aug 30 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 05:06PM
Credit: Max Vozeler is credited with the discovery of this issue.
Vulnerable: maildrop maildrop 1.5.3
+ Debian Linux 3.1 sparc
+ Debian Linux 3.1 s/390
+ Debian Linux 3.1 ppc
+ Debian Linux 3.1 mipsel
+ Debian Linux 3.1 mips
+ Debian Linux 3.1 m68k
+ Debian Linux 3.1 ia-64
+ Debian Linux 3.1 ia-32
+ Debian Linux 3.1 hppa
+ Debian Linux 3.1 arm
+ Debian Linux 3.1 amd64
+ Debian Linux 3.1 alpha
+ Debian Linux 3.1
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Maildrop Lockmail Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Lockmail is affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability.

A local attacker can execute arbitrary commands with group mail privileges.

Maildrop 1.5.3 is affected by this issue. Other versions may be vulnerable as well.

Exploit / POC

Maildrop Lockmail Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

An exploit is not required.

Solution / Fix

Maildrop Lockmail Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
Debian has released advisory DSA 791-1 to address this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

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Maildrop Lockmail Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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