National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4577

Overview

The ACL plugin in Dovecot before 1.1.4 treats negative access rights as if they are positive access rights, which allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-2745

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/2745

External Source: MLIST

Name: [Dovecot-news] 20081005 v1.1.4 released

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-October/000085.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-9232

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00844.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-9202

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00816.html

External Source: BID

Name: 31587

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31587

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2009:0205

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2008:232

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:232

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200812-16

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33624

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33624

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33149

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33149

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32471

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32471

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32164

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32164

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2009:004

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240409

Hyperlink:http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240409