PT-2008-2792 · Dovecot+1 · Dovecot+1

Published 2008-03-06 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-1199

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Dovecot versions prior to 1.0.11

Description The issue allows local users to potentially read sensitive mail files for other users or modify files and directories that are writable by group. This is possible via a symlink attack when Dovecot is configured to use mail extra groups for creating dotlocks in /var/mail.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.0.11, update to version 1.0.11 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of mail extra groups to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

CWE-16

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-1199

DSA-1516-1

RHSA-2008:0297

RHSA-2008_0297

Affected Products

Dovecot

Red Hat

References · 27

• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00358.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000061.html · Patch
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-1199 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1199 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1516 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00381.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-1199 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0297.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-1199 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/593-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-25.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/28092 · Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29557 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32151 · Note