Fedora 16 : dovecot-2.0.21-4.fc16 (2012-19752)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63387

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- do not crash during mail search (CVE-2012-5620)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected dovecot package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883060

http://www.nessus.org/u?e16f0744

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63387

File Name: fedora_2012-19752.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/7/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dovecot, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/5/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5620

FEDORA: 2012-19752