From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Oct 12 2004 - 07:19:47 CDT

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TITLE:
Yeemp Spoofed Sender File Transfer Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12795

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12795/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Spoofing

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Yeemp 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/4037/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Yeemp, which can be exploited by
malicious people to spoof their identity.

Yeemp uses public keys to encrypt messages and determine the identity
of communicating clients. However, the encryption of inbound files is
not checked, which can be exploited to send a file to a client and
spoof the sender identity.

The vulnerability affects version 0.9.9 and prior.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.9.10.
http://deekoo.net/technocracy/yeemp/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://deekoo.net/technocracy/yeemp/

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