National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-3897

Overview

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.

Impact

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-3306

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3306

External Source: BID

Name: 37084

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37084

External Source: MLIST

Name: [dovecot-news] 20091120 v1.2.8 released

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2009-November/000143.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20091123 Re: CVE request: v1.2.8 released to fix the 0777 base_dir creation issue

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125900267208712&w=2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20091120 CVE request: v1.2.8 released to fix the 0777 base_dir creation issue

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125871729029145&w=2

External Source: XF

Name: dovecot-basedir-privilege-escalation(54363)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/54363

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 60316

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/60316

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2009:306

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:306

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 37443

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/37443

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20091123 Re: CVE Request - Dovecot - 1.2.8

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125900271508796&w=2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20091121 CVE Request - Dovecot - 1.2.8

Hyperlink:http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125881481222441&w=2

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2010:001

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00007.html