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openSUSE Security Update : dovecot22 (openSUSE-2016-1342)

low Nessus Plugin ID 95274

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for dovecot22 fixes the following issues :

 - dovecot insecure SSL/TLS key and certificate file creation (CVE-2016-4983, bnc#984639)

Solution

Update the affected dovecot22 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=984639

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 95274

File Name: openSUSE-2016-1342.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/23/2016

Updated: 1/16/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-4983

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-fts-squat-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-fts-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-backend-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-backend-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-fts-solr-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-fts-solr, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-backend-pgsql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-backend-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-fts, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-fts-lucene-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-backend-sqlite-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-fts-squat, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-fts-lucene, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot22-backend-mysql-debuginfo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/22/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/5/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4983