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Fedora 8 Update: dbmail-2.2.9-1.fc8 Print E-mail
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Fedora Fix possible authentication bypass in authldap authentication module when dbmail is used with LDAP servers allowing anonymous logins - CVE-2007-6714 (#443019).
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-3333
2008-04-29 20:22:48
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Name        : dbmail
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 2.2.9
Release     : 1.fc8
URL         : http://www.dbmail.org
Summary     : The DBMail mail storage system
Description :
Dbmail is the name of a group of programs that enable the possiblilty of
storing and retrieving mail messages from a database.

Currently dbmail supports the following database backends:
MySQL
PostgreSQL

SQLite


Please see /usr/share/doc/dbmail-*/README.fedora for specific information on
installation and configuration in Fedora.

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Update Information:

Fix possible authentication bypass in authldap authentication module when dbmail
is used with LDAP servers allowing anonymous logins - CVE-2007-6714 (#443019).
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Apr 24 2008 Bernard Johnson  - 2.2.9-1
- v 2.2.9
* Mon Feb 18 2008 Fedora Release Engineering  - 2.2.8-2
- Autorebuild for GCC 4.3
* Fri Jan 18 2008 Bernard Johnson  - 2.2.8-1
- 2.2.8-1
* Thu Dec  6 2007 Release Engineering  - 2.2.7-2
- Rebuild for deps
* Wed Oct 31 2007 Bernard Johnson  - 2.2.7-1
- 2.2.7-1
- removed unused thread references patch
- removed unused hup patch
- removed unused gmime segv patch
- license clarification
- dbmail: Initscript Review (bz #246901)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #443019 - CVE-2007-6714 dbmail: authentication bypass in authldap
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443019
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update dbmail' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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