Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Gentoo, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions. These issues are caused by erros in Dovecot. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0880

Affected Products

net-mail/dovecot versions prior to 1.0.13-r1

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=net-mail/dovecot-1.0.13-r1"

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0934
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-25.xml

ChangeLog

2008-03-20 : Initial release

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