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openSUSE Security Update : dovecot12 (dovecot12-1811)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44053

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Dovecot created the configured 'base_dir' (/var/run/dovecot) with mode 0777 if it didn't exist, therefore allowing local users to mess with e.g. the authentication socket (CVE-2009-3897).

Note that /var/run/dovecot is part of the dovecot rpm with proper permission settings. Therefor dovecot is not vulnerable in the default configuration as shipped on openSUSE.

Solution

Update the affected dovecot12 packages.

See Also

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=none

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557184

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44053

File Name: suse_11_2_dovecot12-100118.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/19/2010

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot12-backend-pgsql, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot12-backend-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot12, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot12-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot12-backend-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:dovecot12-fts-lucene

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/18/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3897

CWE: 264