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Fedora: 2008-3333 Moderate: Dbmail Authentication Bypass Issue

Fix possible authentication bypass in authldap authentication module when dbmail is used with LDAP servers allowing anonymous logins - CVE-2007-6714 (#443019).. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-3333 2008-04-29 20:22:48 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Name : dbmail Product : Fedora 8 Version : 2.2.9 Release : 1.fc8 URL : https://dbmail.org/en/ Summary : The DBMail mail storage system Description : 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information: Fix possible authentication bypass in authldap authentication module when dbmail is used with LDAP servers allowing anonymous logins - CVE-2007-6714 (#443019). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------ChangeLog: * 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) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------References: [ 1 ] Bug #443019 - CVE-2007-6714 dbmail: authentication bypass in authldap https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443019 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use 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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./ . 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.. dbmail Authentication, Fedora 8 Security, LDAP Fix. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Apr 29, 2008 Fedora