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- RealSystem G2 Server saves password in clear text.
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- RealSystem's G2 Server is a product by RealNetworks that allows you to deliver choreographed multimedia
- presentations that include audio, video, images, web pages, and text over the Internet or corporate Intranets.
- The G2 Server was contains a bug where the administrative user and password is saved in the configuration file in
- clear text and with world readable file permissions (in UNIX system only), making it possible for anyone to gain
- access to the administrative password.
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- While installing the evaluation copy of RealSystem G2 server, you have to enter an admin username and password.
- The password is written to the configuration file in clear text, and not only that, but the file permissions are 644
- (meaning -rw-r--r--, or world readable) making it possible for a malicious user to gain access to RealSystem's G2
- Server's administrative user and wreck havoc.
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- RealSystem's home page is: http://www.real.com.
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