CVE-2007-6598 Information

Description

Dovecot before 1.0.10 with certain configuration options including use of variables does not properly maintain the LDAP+auth cache which might allow remote authenticated users to login as a different user who has the same password.

Reference

http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2007-December/000057.html http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2007-December/000058.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html http://osvdb.org/39876 http://secunia.com/advisories/28227 http://secunia.com/advisories/28271 http://secunia.com/advisories/28404 http://secunia.com/advisories/28434 http://secunia.com/advisories/30342 http://secunia.com/advisories/32151 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1457 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0297.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485779/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485787/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27093 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-567-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0017 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2076 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10458