Bug 469659 (CVE-2008-4870)

Summary:	CVE-2008-4870 dovecot: ssl_key_password disclosure due to an insecure dovecot.conf permissions
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dan, kseifried, mhlavink
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4870
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-11-03 10:12:54 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-4870 to the following vulnerability:

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:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436287

Comment 1 Kurt Seifried 2011-09-30 20:56:42 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5
  
Via RHSA-2009:0205 available at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html