Debian: DSA-1457-1 Moderate: Dovecot Information Disclosure Remote Access
debian
January 9, 2008
It was discovered that Dovecot, a POP3 and IMAP server, only when used
with LDAP authentication and a base that contains variables, could allow
a user to log in to the account of...
Summary
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.rc15-2etch3.
The old stable distribution (sarge) is not affected.
We recommend that you upgrade your dovecot packages.
Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian 4.0 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1463069 26f3d2b075856b1b1d180146363819e6
Size/MD5 checksum: 95447 4252a81404254f52b5e6c94a4de4523a
Size/MD5 checksum: 95500 ...
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