cve-2008-4870
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-10-31 22:00
Modified
2024-08-07 10:31
Severity ?
Summary
dovecot 1.0.7 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, and possibly Fedora, uses world-readable permissions for dovecot.conf, which allows local users to obtain the ssl_key_password parameter value.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/32164Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/33149Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/33624Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436287Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46323Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10776Tool Signature
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/32164Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/33149Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/33624Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436287Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46323Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10776Tool Signature
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