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Fedora 8: 2008-10797 Moderate: Dovecot Password Exposure Risk Mitigation

new possibility to store ssl passwords in different file linked to dovecot.conf via !include_try directive change permissions of deliver and dovecot.conf to prevent possible password exposure change permissions of deliver and dovecot.conf to prevent possible password exposure. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-10797 2008-12-07 02:15:14 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Name : dovecot Product : Fedora 8 Version : 1.0.15 Release : 16.fc8 URL : https://dovecot.org/ Summary : Dovecot Secure imap server Description : 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 plugins are in their subpackages. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information: new possibility to store ssl passwords in different file linked to dovecot.conf via !include_try directive change permissions of deliver and dovecot.conf to prevent possible password exposure change permissions of deliver and dovecot.conf to prevent possible password exposure --------------------------------------------------------------------------------ChangeLog: * Tue Dec 2 2008 Michal Hlavinka - 1.0.15-16 - permissions of deliver and dovecot.conf from 1.0.15-15 reverted - password can be stored in different file readable only for root now * Mon Nov 3 2008 Michal Hlavinka - 1:1.0.15-15 - change permissions of deliver and dovecot.conf to prevent possible password exposure * Wed Oct 29 2008 Michal Hlavinka - 1:1.0.15-14 - fix handling of negative rights in the ACL plugin (Resolves: CVE-2008-4577) * Thu Aug 14 2008 Dan Horak - 1:1.0.15-13 - add missing defattr into subpackages - remove unused patches from CVS * Tue Jul 29 2008 Dan Horak -1:1.0.15-12 - really ask for the password during start-up * Tue Jul 29 2008 Dan Horák - 1:1.0.15-11 - final solution for #445200 (put the password into /etc/sysconfig/dovecot) * Tue Jul 1 2008 Dan Horák - 1:1.0.15-10 - bump release * Sun Jun 22 2008 Dan Horák - 1:1.0.15-1 - update to latest upstream 1.0.15 - Resolves: #452088 * Wed Jun 18 2008 Dan Horak - 1:1.0.14-9 - update init script (Resolves: #451838) * Sat Jun 7 2008 Dan Horak - 1:1.0.14-8 - build devel subpackage (Resolves: #306881) * Fri Jun 6 2008 Dan Horák - 1:1.0.14-7 - update to latest upstream stable (dovecot 1.0.14, sieve plugin 1.0.3) - Resolves: #445200, #448095, #450010 * Sun Mar 9 2008 Tomas Janousek - 1:1.0.13-6 - update to latest upstream stable (1.0.13) * Wed Feb 20 2008 Fedora Release Engineering - 1:1.0.10-5 - Autorebuild for GCC 4.3 * Mon Jan 7 2008 Tomas Janousek - 1:1.0.10-4 - update to latest upstream stable (1.0.10) * Wed Dec 5 2007 Jesse Keating - 1:1.0.7-3 - Bump for deps * Mon Nov 5 2007 Tomas Janousek - 1:1.0.7-2 - update to latest upstream stable (1.0.7) - added the winbind patch (#286351) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update dovecot' 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./ . Nginx security patch for Fedora 8 resolves vulnerabilities in session management and improves access controls for heightened protection..Dovecot Update, Password Management, Fedora Security. . Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team

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