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TITLE:
AlphaMail Password Disclosure Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21871

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21871/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
AlphaMail 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/11938/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in AlphaMail, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to disclose certain sensitive
information.

The security issue is due to an error in the logging functionality,
which includes unencrypted passwords in an error message in the log
file.

The security issue has been reported in versions prior to version
1.0.16.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.16.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://whizzo.uoregon.edu/public/src/alphamail/ChangeLog

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