Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1080-1 dovecot -- programming error

Date Reported:
29 May 2006
Affected Packages:
dovecot
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-2414.
More information:

A problem has been discovered in the IMAP component of Dovecot, a secure mail server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes, which can lead to information disclosure via directory traversal by authenticated users.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.99.14-1sarge0.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0beta8-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your dovecot-imapd package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot_0.99.14-1sarge0.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot_0.99.14-1sarge0.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot_0.99.14.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot_0.99.14-1sarge0_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-common_0.99.14-1sarge0_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-imapd_0.99.14-1sarge0_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-pop3d_0.99.14-1sarge0_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-common_0.99.14-1sarge0_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-imapd_0.99.14-1sarge0_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-pop3d_0.99.14-1sarge0_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-common_0.99.14-1sarge0_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-imapd_0.99.14-1sarge0_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-pop3d_0.99.14-1sarge0_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-common_0.99.14-1sarge0_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-imapd_0.99.14-1sarge0_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-pop3d_0.99.14-1sarge0_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-common_0.99.14-1sarge0_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-imapd_0.99.14-1sarge0_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-pop3d_0.99.14-1sarge0_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-common_0.99.14-1sarge0_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-imapd_0.99.14-1sarge0_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-pop3d_0.99.14-1sarge0_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-common_0.99.14-1sarge0_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-imapd_0.99.14-1sarge0_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-pop3d_0.99.14-1sarge0_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-common_0.99.14-1sarge0_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-imapd_0.99.14-1sarge0_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-pop3d_0.99.14-1sarge0_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-common_0.99.14-1sarge0_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-imapd_0.99.14-1sarge0_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-pop3d_0.99.14-1sarge0_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-common_0.99.14-1sarge0_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-imapd_0.99.14-1sarge0_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-pop3d_0.99.14-1sarge0_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-common_0.99.14-1sarge0_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-imapd_0.99.14-1sarge0_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-pop3d_0.99.14-1sarge0_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-common_0.99.14-1sarge0_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-imapd_0.99.14-1sarge0_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-pop3d_0.99.14-1sarge0_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.