qpopper -- multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities

Jens Steube reports that qpopper is vulnerable to a privilege escalation vulnerability. qpopper does not properly drop root privileges so that user supplied configuration and trace files can be processed with root privileges. This could allow a local attacker to create or modify arbitrary files...

Qpopper: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background Qpopper is a widely used server for the POP3 protocol. Description Jens Steube discovered that Qpopper doesn't drop privileges to process local files from normal users CAN-2005-1151. The upstream developers discovered that Qpopper can be forced to create group or world writeable files...