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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.122586
Category:Oracle Linux Local Security Checks
Title:Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2008-0297)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'dovecot' package(s) announced via the ELSA-2008-0297 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'dovecot' package(s) announced via the ELSA-2008-0297 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
[1.0.7-2]
- LDAP+auth cache user login mixup (CVE-2007-6598, #427575)
- insecure mail_extra_groups option (CVE-2008-1199, #436927)

[1.0.7-1]
- update to latest upstream, fixes a few bugs (#331441, #245249), plus two
security vulnerabilities (CVE-2007-2231, CVE-2007-4211)
- increased default login_process_size to 64 (#253363)

Affected Software/OS:
'dovecot' package(s) on Oracle Linux 5.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
6.8

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-2231
BugTraq ID: 23552
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23552
Bugtraq: 20070418 rPSA-2007-0074-1 dovecot (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466168/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1359 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1359
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-March/008488.html
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2007-March/000038.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10995
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0297.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/25072
http://secunia.com/advisories/30342
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2007:008 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_8_sr.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-487-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1452
XForce ISS Database: dovecot-mboxstorage-directory-traversal(34082)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34082
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-4211
BugTraq ID: 25182
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25182
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2007-August/000048.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11558
http://secunia.com/advisories/26320
http://secunia.com/advisories/26475
XForce ISS Database: dovecot-aclplugin-security-bypass(35767)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35767
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-6598
BugTraq ID: 27093
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27093
Bugtraq: 20080103 Re: rPSA-2008-0001-1 dovecot (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485787/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20080103 rPSA-2008-0001-1 dovecot (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485779/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1457 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1457
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2007-December/000057.html
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2007-December/000058.html
http://osvdb.org/39876
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10458
http://secunia.com/advisories/28227
http://secunia.com/advisories/28271
http://secunia.com/advisories/28404
http://secunia.com/advisories/28434
http://secunia.com/advisories/32151
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2008:020 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-567-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0017
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-1199
BugTraq ID: 28092
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28092
Bugtraq: 20080304 Dovecot mail_extra_groups setting is often used insecurely (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489133/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1516 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1516
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00358.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00381.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-25.xml
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000061.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10739
http://secunia.com/advisories/29226
http://secunia.com/advisories/29385
http://secunia.com/advisories/29396
http://secunia.com/advisories/29557
https://usn.ubuntu.com/593-1/
XForce ISS Database: dovecot-mailextragroups-unauth-access(41009)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41009
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