Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 916
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 916

Fedora 36: 2022-df5bfaec1a Critical Dovecot Privilege Escalation Fix

fedora
Calendar Grey August 1, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update for Dovecot in Fedora 36 addresses severe privilege elevation vulnerabilities linked to master and non-master passdb configurations. Essential security patch.
fix possible privilege escalation in dovecot when similar master and non-master passdbs are used

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 possible privilege escalation in dovecot when similar master and non-master

passdbs are used

* Thu Jul 21 2022 Fedora Release Engineering - 1:2.3.19.1-3

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_37_Mass_Rebuild

* Tue Jul 12 2022 Michal Hlavinka - 1:2.3.19.1-2

- fix possible privilege escalation when similar master and non-master passdbs are used

* Mon Jun 20 2022 Michal Hlavinka - 1:2.3.19.1-1

- updated to 2.3.19.1

[ 1 ] Bug #2105070 - dovecot: Privilege escalation possible in dovecot when similar master and non-master passdbs are used

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2105070

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-df5bfaec1a' at the command

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

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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org

Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/

List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Product: Fedora 36
Version: 2.3.19.1
Release: 3.fc36
Summary: Secure imap and pop3 server

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Your message here