Privilege Escalation in SAFT's sendfiled on Linux Systems

CVE-2001-0623 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

sendfiled, as included with Simple Asynchronous File Transfer (SAFT), on various Linux systems does not properly drop privileges when sending notification emails, which allows local attackers to gain privileges.

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