Product Errata

RLSA-2022:7623

Moderate: dovecot security update

Topic

An update is available for dovecot.

This update affects Rocky Linux 8.

A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list

Description

Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux and other UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind. It also contains a small POP3 server and supports e-mail in either the maildir or mbox format. The SQL drivers and authentication plug-ins are provided as subpackages.

Security Fix(es):

* dovecot: Privilege escalation when similar master and non-master passdbs are used (CVE-2022-30550)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Issued: 11/8/2022

Type: Security

Severity: Moderate

Affected Product

  • Rocky Linux 8

References

  • No references