Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.63248
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0205
Summary:	The remote host is missing updates to Dovecot announced in;advisory RHSA-2009:0205.;;A flaw was found in Dovecot's ACL plug-in. The ACL plug-in treated negative;access rights as positive rights, which could allow an attacker to bypass;intended access restrictions. (CVE-2008-4577);;A password disclosure flaw was found with Dovecot's configuration file. If;a system had the ssl_key_password option defined, any local user could;view the SSL key password. (CVE-2008-4870);;Note: This flaw did not allow the attacker to acquire the contents of the;SSL key. The password has no value without the key file which arbitrary;users should not have read access to.;;To better protect even this value, however, the dovecot.conf file now;supports the !include_try directive. The ssl_key_password option should;be moved from dovecot.conf to a new file owned by, and only readable and;writable by, root (ie 0600). This file should be referenced from;dovecot.conf by setting the !include_try [/path/to/password/file] option.;;Additionally, a number of bug fixes were made (see the referenced;advisories for details).;;Users of dovecot are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which;addresses these vulnerabilities and resolves these issues.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing updates to Dovecot announced in advisory RHSA-2009:0205. A flaw was found in Dovecot's ACL plug-in. The ACL plug-in treated negative access rights as positive rights, which could allow an attacker to bypass intended access restrictions. (CVE-2008-4577) A password disclosure flaw was found with Dovecot's configuration file. If a system had the ssl_key_password option defined, any local user could view the SSL key password. (CVE-2008-4870) Note: This flaw did not allow the attacker to acquire the contents of the SSL key. The password has no value without the key file which arbitrary users should not have read access to. To better protect even this value, however, the dovecot.conf file now supports the !include_try directive. The ssl_key_password option should be moved from dovecot.conf to a new file owned by, and only readable and writable by, root (ie 0600). This file should be referenced from dovecot.conf by setting the !include_try [/path/to/password/file] option. Additionally, a number of bug fixes were made (see the referenced advisories for details). Users of dovecot are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which addresses these vulnerabilities and resolves these issues. Solution: Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date CVSS Score: 6.4 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
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 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-4870 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10776 XForce ISS Database: dovecot-dovecot-information-disclosure(46323) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46323
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