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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2019-3467-01 Dovecot Cert Issue

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A minor patch has been issued for Dovecot on RHEL, addressing vulnerabilities in certificate validation to enhance security and functionality
An update for dovecot is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux and other UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind. It also contains a small POP3 server, and supports e-mail in either the maildir or mbox format. The SQL drivers and authentication plug-ins are provided as subpackages.
Security Fix(es):
* dovecot: Improper certificate validation (CVE-2019-3814)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update red hat enterprise dovecot certificate validation

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3814 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: dovecot-2.2.36-10.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: dovecot-2.2.36-10.el8.aarch64.rpm dovecot-debuginfo-2.2.36-10.el8.aarch64.rpm dovecot-debugsource-2.2.36-10.el8.aarch64.rpm dovecot-mysql-2.2.36-10.el8.aarch64.rpm dovecot-mysql-debuginfo-2.2.36-10.el8.aarch64.rpm dovecot-pgsql-2.2.36-10.el8.aarch64.rpm dovecot-pgsql-debuginfo-2.2.36-10.el8.aarch64.rpm dovecot-pigeonhole-2.2.36-10.el8.aarch64.rpm dovecot-pigeonhole-debuginfo-2.2.36-10.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: dovecot-2.2.36-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm dovecot-debuginfo-2.2.36-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm dovecot-debugsource-2.2.36-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm dovecot-mysql-2.2.36-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm dovecot-mysql-debuginfo-2.2.36-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm dovecot-pgsql-2.2.36-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm dovecot-pgsql-debuginfo-2.2.36-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm dovecot-pigeonhole-2.2.36-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm dovecot-pigeonhole-debuginfo-2.2.36-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: dovecot-2.2.36-10.el8.s390x.rpm dovecot-debuginfo-2.2.36-10.el8.s390x.rpm dovecot-debugsource-2.2.36-10.el8.s390x.rpm dovecot-mysql-2.2.36-10.el8.s390x.rpm dovecot-mysql-debuginfo-2.2.36-10.el8.s390x.rpm dovecot-pgsql-2.2.36-10.el8.s390x.rpm dovecot-pgsql-debuginfo-2.2.36-10.el8.s390x.rpm dovecot-pigeonhole-2.2.36-10.el8.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3467-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3467
Issue date: 2019-11-05

Topic

An update for dovecot is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update red hat enterprise dovecot certificate validation

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1673415 - CVE-2019-3814 dovecot: Improper certificate validation

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