CVE-2007-2231

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2007-03-28
Bugzilla:
238439: CVE-2007-2231 Directory traversal in dovecot with zlib plugin

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2007-2231 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

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

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (dovecot) RHSA-2008:0297 2008-05-20

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