[RHSA-2022:8208-01] Moderate: dovecot security and enhancement update

Tue Nov 15 12:55:52 UTC 2022

An update for dovecot is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

3. 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 Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 9.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

2053368 - installing dovecot-pgsql via kickstart fails on Error in POSTIN scriptlet
2095399 - [RFE] dovecot use systemd-sysusers
2105070 - CVE-2022-30550 dovecot: Privilege escalation when similar master and non-master passdbs are used

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):

Source:
dovecot-2.3.16-7.el9.src.rpm

aarch64:
dovecot-2.3.16-7.el9.aarch64.rpm
dovecot-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.aarch64.rpm
dovecot-debugsource-2.3.16-7.el9.aarch64.rpm
dovecot-mysql-2.3.16-7.el9.aarch64.rpm
dovecot-mysql-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.aarch64.rpm
dovecot-pgsql-2.3.16-7.el9.aarch64.rpm
dovecot-pgsql-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.aarch64.rpm
dovecot-pigeonhole-2.3.16-7.el9.aarch64.rpm
dovecot-pigeonhole-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
dovecot-2.3.16-7.el9.ppc64le.rpm
dovecot-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.ppc64le.rpm
dovecot-debugsource-2.3.16-7.el9.ppc64le.rpm
dovecot-mysql-2.3.16-7.el9.ppc64le.rpm
dovecot-mysql-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.ppc64le.rpm
dovecot-pgsql-2.3.16-7.el9.ppc64le.rpm
dovecot-pgsql-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.ppc64le.rpm
dovecot-pigeonhole-2.3.16-7.el9.ppc64le.rpm
dovecot-pigeonhole-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
dovecot-2.3.16-7.el9.s390x.rpm
dovecot-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.s390x.rpm
dovecot-debugsource-2.3.16-7.el9.s390x.rpm
dovecot-mysql-2.3.16-7.el9.s390x.rpm
dovecot-mysql-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.s390x.rpm
dovecot-pgsql-2.3.16-7.el9.s390x.rpm
dovecot-pgsql-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.s390x.rpm
dovecot-pigeonhole-2.3.16-7.el9.s390x.rpm
dovecot-pigeonhole-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
dovecot-2.3.16-7.el9.x86_64.rpm
dovecot-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.x86_64.rpm
dovecot-debugsource-2.3.16-7.el9.x86_64.rpm
dovecot-mysql-2.3.16-7.el9.x86_64.rpm
dovecot-mysql-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.x86_64.rpm
dovecot-pgsql-2.3.16-7.el9.x86_64.rpm
dovecot-pgsql-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.x86_64.rpm
dovecot-pigeonhole-2.3.16-7.el9.x86_64.rpm
dovecot-pigeonhole-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9):

aarch64:
dovecot-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.aarch64.rpm
dovecot-debugsource-2.3.16-7.el9.aarch64.rpm
dovecot-devel-2.3.16-7.el9.aarch64.rpm
dovecot-mysql-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.aarch64.rpm
dovecot-pgsql-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.aarch64.rpm
dovecot-pigeonhole-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
dovecot-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.ppc64le.rpm
dovecot-debugsource-2.3.16-7.el9.ppc64le.rpm
dovecot-devel-2.3.16-7.el9.ppc64le.rpm
dovecot-mysql-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.ppc64le.rpm
dovecot-pgsql-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.ppc64le.rpm
dovecot-pigeonhole-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
dovecot-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.s390x.rpm
dovecot-debugsource-2.3.16-7.el9.s390x.rpm
dovecot-devel-2.3.16-7.el9.s390x.rpm
dovecot-mysql-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.s390x.rpm
dovecot-pgsql-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.s390x.rpm
dovecot-pigeonhole-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
dovecot-2.3.16-7.el9.i686.rpm
dovecot-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.i686.rpm
dovecot-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.x86_64.rpm
dovecot-debugsource-2.3.16-7.el9.i686.rpm
dovecot-debugsource-2.3.16-7.el9.x86_64.rpm
dovecot-devel-2.3.16-7.el9.i686.rpm
dovecot-devel-2.3.16-7.el9.x86_64.rpm
dovecot-mysql-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.i686.rpm
dovecot-mysql-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.x86_64.rpm
dovecot-pgsql-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.i686.rpm
dovecot-pgsql-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.x86_64.rpm
dovecot-pigeonhole-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.i686.rpm
dovecot-pigeonhole-debuginfo-2.3.16-7.el9.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security.  Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-30550
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.1_release_notes/index

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert at redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

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