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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1359-1 (dovecot)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.3

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to dovecot announced via advisory DSA 1359-1.

Insight

Insight

It was discovered that dovecot, a secure mail server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes, when configured to use non-system-user spools and compressed folders, may allow directory traversal in mailbox names. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.rc15-2etch1. For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem was not present. For the unstable distribution this problem with be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your dovecot package.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201359-1

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