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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.61758
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2008-9202 (dovecot)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to dovecot
announced via advisory FEDORA-2008-9202.

Update Information:

fix handling of negative rights in the ACL plugin

ChangeLog:

* Wed Oct 29 2008 Michal Hlavinka - 1:1.0.15-14
- fix handling of negative rights in the ACL plugin (Resolves: CVE-2008-4577)

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #467436 - CVE-2008-4577 dovecot: incorrect handling of negative rights in the ACL plugin
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467436

Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.

This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update dovecot' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum,
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2008-9202

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
6.4

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-4577
31587
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31587
32164
http://secunia.com/advisories/32164
32471
http://secunia.com/advisories/32471
33149
http://secunia.com/advisories/33149
33624
http://secunia.com/advisories/33624
36904
http://secunia.com/advisories/36904
ADV-2008-2745
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2745
FEDORA-2008-9202
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00816.html
FEDORA-2008-9232
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00844.html
GLSA-200812-16
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml
MDVSA-2008:232
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:232
RHSA-2009:0205
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html
SUSE-SR:2009:004
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
USN-838-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-838-1
[Dovecot-news] 20081005 v1.1.4 released
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-October/000085.html
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240409
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10376
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10376
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