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openSUSE Security Update : dovecot (dovecot-504)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 39952

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Dovecot didn't properly treat negative access rights therefore allowing attackers to bypass intended access restrictions (CVE-2008-4577)

Solution

Update the affected dovecot packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435978

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 39952

File Name: suse_11_0_dovecot-090205.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 2/5/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4577

CWE: 264