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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-4011

Original release date:11/17/2010
Last revised:11/17/2010
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Dovecot in Apple Mac OS X 10.6.5 10H574 does not properly manage memory for user names, which allows remote authenticated users to read the private e-mail of other persons in opportunistic circumstances via standard e-mail clients accessing a user's own mailbox, related to a "memory aliasing issue."

Description

Per: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00001.html 'Dovecot is only provided with Mac OS X Server systems. This issue only affects systems running Mac OS X Server v10.6.5 (10H574). This issue does not affect the Dovecot open source project.'

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:4.0 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information

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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4452
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4452
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2010-11-15-1
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00001.html

Vulnerable software and versions

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Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)
  • Information Leak / Disclosure (CWE-200)
CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4011