From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Jan 08 2004 - 05:48:00 CST

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TITLE:
Lotus Notes "notes.ini" Insecure Default Permissions

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA10566

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/10566/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Manipulation of data

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Lotus Notes R6.x

DESCRIPTION:
l0om has reported a security issue in Lotus Notes for Linux, which
can be exploited by malicious, local users to manipulate information
in a configuration file.

The configuration file "notesdata/notes.ini" is by default installed
with "666" permissions granting anyone read and write privileges.
This can be exploited to manipulate critical configuration
parameters.

The problem has been reported in version 6.0.2. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Set proper permissions on the configuration file.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
l0om

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.excluded.org/advisories/advisory05.txt

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