CVE-2008-4870

Name	CVE-2008-4870
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.
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)

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	vulnerable
	buster (security)	1:2.3.4.1-5+deb10u7	vulnerable
	bullseye	1:2.3.13+dfsg1-2+deb11u1	vulnerable
	bookworm, sid	1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
dovecot	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	unimportant

by default this file doesnt containt sensitive information and administrator
changing this should ensure on its own that the mode is secure