Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800030
Category:	Privilege escalation
Title:	Dovecot ACL Plugin Security Bypass Vulnerabilities
Summary:	Check for the version of Dovecot
Description:	Overview: This host has Dovecot ACL Plugin installed and is prone to multiple security bypass vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Insight: The flaws are due to, - the ACL plugin interprets negative access rights as positive access rights, potentially giving an unprivileged user access to restricted resources. - an error in the ACL plugin when imposing mailbox creation restrictions to to create parent/child/child mailboxes. Impact: Successful attack could allow malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions or manipulate certain data. Impact Level: Application Affected Software/OS: Dovecot versions prior to 1.1.4 on Linux Fix: Upgrade to Dovecot version 1.1.4 http://www.dovecot.org/download.html References: http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/2745 http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-October/000085.html
Cross-Ref:	BugTraq ID: 31587 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-4577 http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-October/000085.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00816.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00844.html http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:232 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2009:004 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-838-1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31587 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10376 http://secunia.com/advisories/36904 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2745 http://secunia.com/advisories/32164 http://secunia.com/advisories/33149 http://secunia.com/advisories/33624 http://secunia.com/advisories/32471 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-4578 Bugtraq: 20081119 Re: [ MDVSA-2008:232 ] dovecot (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/498498/100/0/threaded XForce ISS Database: dovecot-acl-mailbox-security-bypass(45669) http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45669
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