CVE-2009-3897
First published: Tue Nov 24 2009(Updated: )
Dovecot 1.2.x before 1.2.8 sets 0777 permissions during creation of certain directories at installation time, which allows local users to access arbitrary user accounts by replacing the auth socket, related to the parent directories of the base_dir directory, and possibly the base_dir directory itself.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Dovecot Dovecot | =1.2.2 | |
| Dovecot Dovecot | =1.2.7 | |
| Dovecot Dovecot | =1.2.4 | |
| Dovecot Dovecot | =1.2.1 | |
| Dovecot Dovecot | =1.2.6 | |
| Dovecot Dovecot | =1.2.5 | |
| Dovecot Dovecot | =1.2.3 | |
| Dovecot Dovecot | =1.2.0 | |
| Dovecot Dovecot | >=1.2.0<1.2.8 |
Never miss a vulnerability like this again
Sign up to SecAlerts for real-time vulnerability data matched to your software, aggregated from hundreds of sources.
Reference Links
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37443
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125900271508796&w=2
- http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2009-November/000143.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3306
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125900267208712&w=2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37084
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125881481222441&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125871729029145&w=2
- http://www.osvdb.org/60316
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:306
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00007.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54363
- collector/nvd-historical
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/references
- agent/type
- agent/first-publish-date
- collector/nvd-api
- source/NVD
- agent/software-canonical-lookup
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/severity
- agent/author
- agent/weakness
- agent/remedy
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/tags
- agent/description
- agent/event
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/dovecot
- canonical/dovecot dovecot
- version/dovecot dovecot/1.2.2
- version/dovecot dovecot/1.2.7
- version/dovecot dovecot/1.2.4
- version/dovecot dovecot/1.2.1
- version/dovecot dovecot/1.2.6
- version/dovecot dovecot/1.2.5
- version/dovecot dovecot/1.2.3
- version/dovecot dovecot/1.2.0