CVE-2008-1199 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-1199 at MITRE

Description

Dovecot before 1.0.11, when configured to use mail_extra_groups to allow Dovecot to create dotlocks in /var/mail, might allow local users to read sensitive mail files for other users, or modify files or directories that are writable by group, via a symlink attack.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.4
Vector	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 366522 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2008:020, published Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:11:00 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:15 2025