[Dovecot] v1.2.8 released

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Nov 20 16:14:22 EET 2009


On Nov 20, 2009, at 9:06 AM, Frank Cusack wrote:

> On November 19, 2009 7:45:05 PM -0500 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>> http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.8.tar.gz
>> http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/dovecot-1.2.8.tar.gz.sig
>> 
>> This is mainly to fix the 0777 base_dir creation issue, which could be
>> considered a security hole, exploitable by local users. An attacker
>> could for example replace Dovecot's auth socket and log in as other
>> users. Gaining root privileges isn't possible though.
> 
> Isn't it possible to login as a master user?

"Master user" simply means ability to log in as another user with your own password. There's no way to log in as root.



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