| Name | CVE-2008-4577 |
| Description | The ACL plugin in Dovecot before 1.1.4 treats negative access rights as if they are positive access rights, which allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 502967 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| 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 | 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1 | fixed |
| trixie | 1:2.3.21+dfsg1-2 | fixed |
| sid | 1:2.3.21+dfsg1-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| dovecot | source | (unstable) | 1:1.0.15-2.2 | low | | 502967 |
Notes
[etch] - dovecot <no-dsa> (Minor issue)