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Fedora 32: FEDORA-2021-c90cb486f7 Medium: Dovecot IMAP Access Issue

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Calendar Grey January 19, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Postfix upgraded to address log path issues and improve SMTP email delivery safety; bolster defense featuring added user roles.
fix rundir location ---- - dovecot updated to 2.3.13, pigeonhole to 0.5.13 - CVE-2020-24386: Specially crafted command can cause IMAP hibernate to allow logged in user to access o...

Summary

Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security

primarily in mind. It also contains a small POP3 server. It supports mail

in either of maildir or mbox formats.

The SQL drivers and authentication plug-ins are in their subpackages.

fix rundir location ---- - dovecot updated to 2.3.13, pigeonhole to 0.5.13 -CVE-2020-24386: Specially crafted command can cause IMAP hibernate to allow

logged in user to access other people's emails and filesystem information. -Metric filter and global event filter variable syntax changed to a SQL-like

format. - auth: Added new aliases for %{variables}. Usage of the old ones is

possible, but discouraged. - auth: Removed RPA auth mechanism, SKEY auth

mechanism, NTLM auth mechanism and related password schemes. - auth: Removed

passdb-sia, passdb-vpopmail and userdb-vpopmail. - auth: Removed postfix postmap

socket

* Thu Jan 7 2021 Michal Hlavinka - 1:2.3.13-2

- fix rundir location

* Wed Jan 6 2021 Michal Hlavinka - 1:2.3.13-1

- fix release number

* Mon Jan 4 2021 Michal Hlavinka - 1:2.3.13-0

- dovecot updated to 2.3.13, pigeonhole to 0.5.13

- CVE-2020-24386: Specially crafted command can cause IMAP hibernate to

allow logged in user to access other people's emails and filesystem

information.

- Metric filter and global event filter variable syntax changed to a

SQL-like format.

- auth: Added new aliases for %{variables}. Usage of the old ones is

possible, but discouraged.

- auth: Removed RPA auth mechanism, SKEY auth mechanism, NTLM auth

mechanism and related password schemes.

- auth: Removed passdb-sia, passdb-vpopmail and userdb-vpopmail.

- auth: Removed postfix postmap socket

* Wed Oct 21 2020 Michal Hlavinka - 1:2.3.11.3-7

- change run directory from /var/run to /run (#1777922)

* Wed Oct 21 2020 Michal Hlavinka - 1:2.3.11.3-6

- use bigger default key size (#1882939)

[ 1 ] Bug #1912455 - CVE-2020-24386 dovecot: IMAP hibernation function allows mail access

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1912455

[ 2 ] Bug #1912460 - CVE-2020-25275 dovecot: Denial of service via mail MIME parsing

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1912460

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-c90cb486f7' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 32
Version: 2.3.13
Release: 2.fc32
Summary: Secure imap and pop3 server

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