Directory traversal vulnerability in index/mbox/mbox-storage.c in Dovecot before 1.0.rc29, when using the zlib plugin, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary gzipped (.gz) mailboxes (mbox files) via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the mailbox name.
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Directory traversal vulnerability in index/mbox/mbox-storage.c in Dovecot before 1.0.rc29, when using the zlib plugin, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary gzipped (.gz) mailboxes (mbox files) via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the mailbox name.
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Directory traversal vulnerability in index/mbox/mbox-storage.c in Dovecot before 1.0.rc29, when using the zlib plugin, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary gzipped (.gz) mailboxes (mbox files) via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the mailbox name.
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| Primary | 2.0 | 4.3 | MEDIUM | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
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| NVD-CWE-Other | Primary | nvd@nist.gov |
This issue did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux prior to version 5. An update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was released to correct this issue: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0297.html
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| http://dovecot.org/doc/NEWS | cve@mitre.org | N/A |
| http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-March/008488.html | cve@mitre.org | N/A |
| http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2007-March/000038.html | cve@mitre.org | N/A |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/25072 | cve@mitre.org | N/A |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/30342 | cve@mitre.org | N/A |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1359 | cve@mitre.org | N/A |
| http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_8_sr.html | cve@mitre.org | N/A |
| http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0297.html | cve@mitre.org | N/A |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466168/100/0/threaded | cve@mitre.org | N/A |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23552 | cve@mitre.org | N/A |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-487-1 | cve@mitre.org | N/A |
| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1452 | cve@mitre.org | N/A |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34082 | cve@mitre.org | N/A |
| https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10995 | cve@mitre.org | N/A |