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dovecot: privilege escalation

Package(s):dovecot CVE #(s):CVE-2007-4211
Created:August 15, 2007 Updated:May 21, 2008
Description: From the rPath advisory: "Previous versions of the dovecot package are vulnerable to a minor privilege escalation attack in which an authenticated user may exploit an ACL plugin weakness to save message flags without having proper permissions."
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0297-02 2008-05-21
Fedora FEDORA-2007-664 2007-08-20
rPath rPSA-2007-0161-1 2007-08-14
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