CVE-2008-4870 (GCVE-0-2008-4870)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-10-31 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:31
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
9 references
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| http://secunia.com/advisories/32164 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/1… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/33149 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436287 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-02… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/33624 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… | vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL |
Date Public
2008-10-29 00:00
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