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Oracle Linux 6 : dovecot (ELSA-2011-0600)

high Nessus Plugin ID 181062

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-0600 advisory.

 [2.0.9-2]
 - fix issues and assert crashes found in 2.0.9 (lmtp,dotlock,zlib)

 [2.0.9-1]
 - dovecot updated to 2.0.9
 - fixed a high system CPU usage / high context switch count performance problem
 - lda: Fixed a crash when trying to send 'out of quota' reply

 [2.0.8-1]
 - dovecot updated to 2.0.8 (fixes #654226), pigeonhole updated to 0.2.2
 - IMAP: Fixed SELECT QRESYNC not to crash on mailbox close if a lot of changes w ere being sent.
 - Fixed leaking fds when writing to dovecot.mailbox.log.
 - Fixed rare dovecot.index.cache corruption
 - zlib: Fixed several crashes, which mainly showed up with mbox.
 - acl: Fixed crashing when sometimes listing shared mailboxes via dict proxy.
 - mdbox: Fixed potential assert-crash when saving multiple messages in one transaction
 - dsync: a lot of fixes
 - fixed lda + sieve crash

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2011-0600.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 181062

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-0600.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/7/2023

Updated: 4/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-3707

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-3780

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dovecot-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dovecot-mysql, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dovecot-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dovecot-pigeonhole, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dovecot

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/28/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/4/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3707, CVE-2010-3780