Executive Summary

Summary
Title Courier vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-226-1 First vendor Publication 2005-12-09
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2005-12-09
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)

The following packages are affected:

courier-authdaemon

The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 0.45.6-1ubuntu0.2 (for Ubuntu 4.10), 0.47-3ubuntu1.4 (for Ubuntu 5.04), or 0.47-3ubuntu7.1 (for Ubuntu 5.10). In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

Patrick Cheong Shu Yang discovered a flaw in the user account handling of courier-authdaemon. After successful authorization, the Courier mail server granted access to deactivated accounts.

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-226-1

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 9

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 917-1 (courier)
File : nvt/deb_917_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
21541 Courier Mail Server courier-authdaemon Deactivated Account Authentication Bypass

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2006-10-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-917.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-01-21 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-226-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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