Gentoo GLSA-200812-16 Normal: Dovecot Denial of Service Threats
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December 15, 2008
Multiple vulnerabilities were found in the Dovecot mailserver.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200812-16
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Dovecot: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: December 14, 2008
Bugs: #240409, #244962, #245316
ID: 200812-16
Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities were found in the Dovecot mailserver.
Background
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Dovecot is an IMAP and POP3 server written with security primarily in
mind.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-mail/dovecot < 1.1.7-r1 >= 1.1.7-r1
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Several vulnerabilities were found in Dovecot:
* The "k" right in the acl_plugin does not work as expected
(CVE-2008-4577, CVE-2008-4578)
* The dovecot.conf is world-readable, providing ...
Resolution
References
Availability
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