CVE-2008-1199 Information

Description

Dovecot before 1.0.11 when configured to use mail_extra_groups to allow Dovecot to create dotlocks in /var/mail might allow local users to read sensitive mail files for other users or modify files or directories that are writable by group via a symlink attack.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html http://secunia.com/advisories/29226 http://secunia.com/advisories/29385 http://secunia.com/advisories/29396 http://secunia.com/advisories/29557 http://secunia.com/advisories/30342 http://secunia.com/advisories/32151 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-25.xml http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1516 http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2008-March/000061.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0297.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489133/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28092 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41009 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10739 https://usn.ubuntu.com/593-1/ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00358.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00381.html