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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-2231

Original release date:04/25/2007
Last revised:04/08/2009
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Directory traversal vulnerability in index/mbox/mbox-storage.c in Dovecot before 1.0.rc29, when using the zlib plugin, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary gzipped (.gz) mailboxes (mbox files) via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the mailbox name.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:4.3 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (05/21/2008)
This issue did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux prior to version 5. An update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was released to correct this issue: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0297.html

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External Source: BID
Name: 23552
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070418 rPSA-2007-0074-1 dovecot
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0297
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-1452
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30342
External Source: MLIST
Name: [dovecot-news] 20070330 Security hole #3: zlib plugin allows opening any gziped mboxes
External Source: MLIST
Name: [dovecot-cvs] 20070330 dovecot/src/lib-storage/index/mbox mbox-storage.c, 1.145.2.14, 1.145.2.15
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://dovecot.org/doc/NEWS
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-487-1
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2007:008
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1359
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25072

Vulnerable software and versions

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spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.beta1
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.beta2
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.beta3
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.beta4
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.beta5
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.beta6
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.beta7
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.beta8
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.beta9
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc1
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc10
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc11
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc12
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc13
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc14
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc15
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc16
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc17
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc18
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc19
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc2
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc20
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc21
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc22
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc23
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc24
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc25
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc26
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc27
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc28
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc3
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc4
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc5
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc6
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc7
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc8
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:dovecot:dovecot:1.0.rc9
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