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Fedora Core 5 : dovecot-1.0-0.beta8.4.fc5 (2007-493)

high Nessus Plugin ID 25183

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fri Mar 2 2007 Tomas Janousek <tjanouse at redhat.com> - 1.0-0.beta8.4.fc5

 - a little master login fix (#224925)

 - fix for CVE-2007-2231 (#238440)

 - Thu Dec 21 2006 Tomas Janousek <tjanouse at redhat.com> - 1.0-0.beta8.3.fc5

 - fixed default paths in the example mkcert.sh to match configuration defaults (fixes #183151)

 - fixed off by one (#216508, CVE-2006-5973)

 - Thu Jun 8 2006 Petr Rockai <prockai at redhat.com> - 1.0-0.beta8.2.fc5

 - bring FC-5 branch up to date with the rawhide one (bugfixes only)

 - should fix non-working pop3 in default installation

 - Thu Jun 8 2006 Petr Rockai <prockai at redhat.com> - 1.0-0.beta8.2

 - put back pop3_uidl_format default that got lost in the beta2->beta7 upgrade (would cause pop3 to not work at all in many situations)

 - Thu May 4 2006 Petr Rockai <prockai at redhat.com> - 1.0-0.beta8.1

 - upgrade to latest upstream beta release (beta8)

 - contains a security fix in mbox handling

 - Thu May 4 2006 Petr Rockai <prockai at redhat.com> - 1.0-0.beta7.1

 - upgrade to latest upstream beta release

 - fixed BR 173048

 - Fri Mar 17 2006 Petr Rockai <prockai at redhat.com> - 1.0-0.beta2.8

 - fix sqlite detection in upstream configure checks, second part of #182240

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected dovecot and / or dovecot-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?695b472b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 25183

File Name: fedora_2007-493.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/10/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dovecot-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dovecot

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 5/7/2007

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2007-493