Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.704418
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4418-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'dovecot' package(s) announced via the DSA-4418-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'dovecot' package(s) announced via the DSA-4418-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: A vulnerability was discovered in the Dovecot email server. When reading FTS or POP3-UIDL headers from the Dovecot index, the input buffer size is not bounds-checked. An attacker with the ability to modify dovecot indexes, can take advantage of this flaw for privilege escalation or the execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the dovecot user. Only installations using the FTS or pop3 migration plugins are affected. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.2.27-3+deb9u4. We recommend that you upgrade your dovecot packages. For the detailed security status of dovecot please refer to its security tracker page at: [link moved to references] Affected Software/OS: 'dovecot' package(s) on Debian 9. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 7.2 CVSS Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-7524 BugTraq ID: 107672 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107672 Bugtraq: 20190328 [SECURITY] [DSA 4418-1] dovecot security update (Google Search) https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/59 Debian Security Information: DSA-4418 (Google Search) https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4418 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QHFZ5OWRIZGIWZJ5PTNVWWZNLLNH4XYS/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4XLI55NGRDTGMVOPYFCPPFNPA5VKYSSY/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-19 https://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2019-March/000403.html https://dovecot.org/security.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00038.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/28/1 SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2019:1212 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00060.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2019:1220 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00067.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3928-1/
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