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CVE-2013-6171

Publication date 9 December 2013

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

checkpassword-reply in Dovecot before 2.2.7 performs setuid operations to a user who is authenticating, which allows local users to bypass authentication and access virtual email accounts by attaching to the process and using a restricted file descriptor to modify account information in the response to the dovecot-auth server.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
dovecot 17.10 artful
Not affected
17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
15.10 wily
Not affected
15.04 vivid
Not affected
14.10 utopic
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected
13.10 saucy Ignored
13.04 raring Ignored
12.10 quantal Ignored
12.04 LTS precise Ignored
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored

Patch details

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Package Patch details
dovecot