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Mandriva: [ MDVSA-2009:064 ] imap Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Mandrake Security vulnerabilities has been identified and fixed in University of Washington IMAP Toolkit which could allow local users to gain privileges by specifying incorrect folder name (CVE-2008-5005). The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.
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 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDVSA-2009:064
 http://www.mandriva.com/security/
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Package : imap
 Date    : March 2, 2009
 Affected: Corporate 3.0
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Problem Description:

 Security vulnerabilities has been identified and fixed in University
 of Washington IMAP Toolkit which could allow local users to gain
 privileges by specifying incorrect folder name (CVE-2008-5005).
 
 The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.
 _______________________________________________________________________

 References:

 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5005
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Updated Packages:

 Corporate 3.0:
 35d1595673a4b729cd9c3c4d31d51417  corporate/3.0/i586/imap-2002d-8.4.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 9c7b39600c42ee3f77e7cb2e2646eadd  corporate/3.0/i586/imap-devel-2002d-8.4.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 3687a88d8791bcf26e54e4d3dee5e0b1  corporate/3.0/i586/imap-utils-2002d-8.4.C30mdk.i586.rpm 
 cd3862f4498e8302be7290f20d1bcce8  corporate/3.0/SRPMS/imap-2002d-8.4.C30mdk.src.rpm

 Corporate 3.0/X86_64:
 8a616b9dff2145f6e4723a5078e6be1a  corporate/3.0/x86_64/imap-2002d-8.4.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 eeb9a45bc92829002597be3e9161b817  corporate/3.0/x86_64/imap-devel-2002d-8.4.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 021365d905793a741f61f6b6268a9180  corporate/3.0/x86_64/imap-utils-2002d-8.4.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm 
 cd3862f4498e8302be7290f20d1bcce8  corporate/3.0/SRPMS/imap-2002d-8.4.C30mdk.src.rpm
 _______________________________________________________________________

 To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi.  The verification
 of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

 All packages are signed by Mandriva for security.  You can obtain the
 GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

  gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

 You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories

 If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

  security_(at)_mandriva.com
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Type Bits/KeyID     Date       User ID
 pub  1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
  
 
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