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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2625-1 courier-authlib -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

14 Apr 2021

Affected Packages:

courier-authlib

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 984810.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-28374.

More information:

The Debian courier-authlib package before 0.71.1-2 for Courier Authentication Library creates a /run/courier/authdaemon directory with weak permissions, allowing an attacker to read user information. This may include a cleartext password in some configurations. In general, it includes the user's existence, uid and gids, home and/or Maildir directory, quota, and some type of password information (such as a hash).

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 0.66.4-9+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your courier-authlib packages.

For the detailed security status of courier-authlib please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/courier-authlib

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