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TITLE:
Cocktail Exposure of Administrator Password

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15201

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15201/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Cocktail 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/5027/

DESCRIPTION:
sonderling has reported a security issue in Cocktail, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive
information.

The problem is that the administrator password is insecurely passed
to the sudo process via the command line and may be exposed to other
users.

The security issue has been reported in version 3.5.4. Prior versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.6.
http://www.macosxcocktail.com/download.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
sonderling

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