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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1199

Original release date:03/06/2008

Last revised:04/08/2009

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Dovecot before 1.0.11, when configured to use mail_extra_groups to allow Dovecot to create dotlocks in /var/mail, might allow local users to read sensitive mail files for other users, or modify files or directories that are writable by group, via a symlink attack.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:4.4 (MEDIUM) (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.4

Exploitability Subscore: 3.4

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Locally exploitable

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (05/21/2008): Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-1199 This issue does not affect the default configuration of Dovecot as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having moderate security impact, a future update may address this flaw. 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: 28092

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28092

External Source: MLIST

Name: [Dovecot-news] 20080504 v1.0.11 released

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000061.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-2475

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00381.html

External Source: FEDORA