Name | CVE-2007-6598 |
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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DSA-1457-1 |
Debian Bugs | 458315 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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dovecot (PTS) | buster | 1:2.3.4.1-5+deb10u6 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 1:2.3.4.1-5+deb10u7 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm, sid | 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[sarge] - dovecot <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[etch] - dovecot <no-dsa> (very minor issue)
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2007-December/000057.html
low, because issue is only with quite rare configurations