CVE-2008-4870

N/A Unknown

Published: November 01, 2008 Modified: April 23, 2026

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/32164

Source: cve@mitre.org

Broken Link

http://secunia.com/advisories/33149

Source: cve@mitre.org

Broken Link

http://secunia.com/advisories/33624

Source: cve@mitre.org

Broken Link

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-16.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/10

Source: cve@mitre.org

Mailing List Third Party Advisory

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0205.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436287

Source: cve@mitre.org

Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46323

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10776

Source: cve@mitre.org

Tool Signature

http://secunia.com/advisories/32164