ubuntu · CVE-2005-2807

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Priority: medium Published: 2005-09-07 18:03:00 UTC Updated: 2025-07-17 16:36:27 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2005-2807 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (frox), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): not-affected 3, needs-triage 1.

Description:

frox 0.7.18, when running setuid root, does not properly drop privileges when reading a configuration file, which allows local users to read portions of arbitrary files via the -f command line option.

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