From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Apr 13 2004 - 08:31:51 CDT

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TITLE:
Citadel/UX Insecure Default Database Permissions

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA11348

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11348/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Citadel/UX 5.x
Citadel/UX 6.x

DESCRIPTION:
The vendor has reported a problem in Citadel/UX, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain direct access to the
database.

The problem is caused due to insecure default permissions on the
"data" directory and database files. This allows any local user to
read the database files directly.

Versions 5.00 through 6.14 on all architectures are reportedly
affected. However, the problem primarily affects 5.xx installations
and 6.xx installations, which were upgraded from a 5.xx installation.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 6.20p1:
http://uncensored.citadel.org/pub/citadel/citadel-ux-6.20p1.tar.gz

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

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