CVE-2008-4870 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/32164 http://secunia.com/advisories/33149 http://secunia.com/advisories/33624 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436287 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46323 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10776