GLSA 200411-34: Cyrus IMAP Server: Multiple remote vulnerabilities

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Severity:	high
Title:	Cyrus IMAP Server: Multiple remote vulnerabilities
Date:	11/25/2004
Bugs:	#72194
ID:	200411-34

Synopsis

The Cyrus IMAP Server contains multiple vulnerabilities which could lead to remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background

The Cyrus IMAP Server is an efficient, highly-scalable IMAP e-mail server.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-mail/cyrus-imapd	< 2.2.10	>= 2.2.10	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the argument parsers of the 'partial' and 'fetch' commands of the Cyrus IMAP Server (CAN-2004-1012, CAN-2004-1013). There are also buffer overflows in the 'imap magic plus' code that are vulnerable to exploitation as well (CAN-2004-1011, CAN-2004-1015).

Impact

An attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user running the Cyrus IMAP Server.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Cyrus-IMAP Server users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.2.10"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200411-34.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.