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Fedora: 2008-3333 Moderate: Dbmail Authentication Bypass Issue

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Calendar Grey April 29, 2008
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A security update for dbmail's authldap module on Fedora 8 addresses an authentication bypass risk by blocking anonymous logins, enhancing access control for users.
Fix possible authentication bypass in authldap authentication module when dbmail is used with LDAP servers allowing anonymous logins - CVE-2007-6714 (#443019).

Summary

Dbmail is the name of a group of programs that enable the possiblilty of

storing and retrieving mail messages from a database.

Currently dbmail supports the following database backends:

MySQL

PostgreSQL

SQLite

Please see /usr/share/doc/dbmail-*/README.fedora for specific information on

installation and configuration in Fedora.

Fix possible authentication bypass in authldap authentication module when dbmail

is used with LDAP servers allowing anonymous logins - CVE-2007-6714 (#443019).

* Thu Apr 24 2008 Bernard Johnson - 2.2.9-1

- v 2.2.9

* Mon Feb 18 2008 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.2.8-2

- Autorebuild for GCC 4.3

* Fri Jan 18 2008 Bernard Johnson - 2.2.8-1

- 2.2.8-1

* Thu Dec 6 2007 Release Engineering - 2.2.7-2

- Rebuild for deps

* Wed Oct 31 2007 Bernard Johnson - 2.2.7-1

- 2.2.7-1

- removed unused thread references patch

- removed unused hup patch

- removed unused gmime segv patch

- license clarification

- dbmail: Initscript Review (bz #246901)

[ 1 ] Bug #443019 - CVE-2007-6714 dbmail: authentication bypass in authldap

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443019

su -c 'yum update dbmail' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

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/

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

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

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 8
Version: 2.2.9
Release: 1.fc8
Summary: The DBMail mail storage system

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