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Fedora 8 : dbmail-2.2.9-1.fc8 (2008-3333)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 32093

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix possible authentication bypass in authldap authentication module when dbmail is used with LDAP servers allowing anonymous logins - CVE-2007-6714 (#443019).

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 dbmail package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443019

http://www.nessus.org/u?d9296ae1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 32093

File Name: fedora_2008-3333.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/1/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dbmail

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/29/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6714

CWE: 287

FEDORA: 2008-3333