CVE-2005-1151 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-1151 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.2
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 81521 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2005:014, published Tue, 07 Jun 2005 14:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:13:02 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:39 2025