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CVE-2010-4011

Publication date 17 November 2010

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Dovecot in Apple Mac OS X 10.6.5 10H574 does not properly manage memory for user names, which allows remote authenticated users to read the private e-mail of other persons in opportunistic circumstances via standard e-mail clients accessing a user's own mailbox, related to a "memory aliasing issue."

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
dovecot 10.10 maverick
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
9.10 karmic
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

looks OS X specific