ALT-PU-2013-1205-1
Closed vulnerabilities
Published: 2013-12-09
Modified: 2024-11-21
Modified: 2024-11-21
CVE-2013-6171
checkpassword-reply in Dovecot before 2.2.7 performs setuid operations to a user who is authenticating, which allows local users to bypass authentication and access virtual email accounts by attaching to the process and using a restricted file descriptor to modify account information in the response to the dovecot-auth server.
Severity: MEDIUM (5.8)
References:
- http://cpanel.net/tsr-2013-0010-full-disclosure/
- http://cpanel.net/tsr-2013-0010-full-disclosure/
- 54808
- 54808
- http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/CheckPassword#Security
- http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/CheckPassword#Security
- [Dovecot-news] 20131103 v2.2.7 released
- [Dovecot-news] 20131103 v2.2.7 released
- USN-3556-2
- USN-3556-2