CVE-2008-1199 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1199
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Description: Dovecot before 1.0.11, when configured to use mail_extra_groups to allow Dovecot to create dotlocks in /var/mail, might allow local users to read sensitive mail files for other users, or modify files or directories that are writable by group, via a symlink attack.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41009 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-593-1 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA29226 Secunia Advisory: SA29385 Secunia Advisory: SA29396 Secunia Advisory: SA29557 Secunia Advisory: SA32151 Secunia Advisory: SA30342 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0297.html MLIST http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000061.html GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-25.xml FEDORA DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1516 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/489133/100/0/threaded BID 28092

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