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A dovecot security update has been released for Fedora Linux 36.



SECURITY: Fedora 36 Update: dovecot-2.3.19.1-3.fc36


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-df5bfaec1a
2022-08-02 01:39:02.640788
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Name : dovecot
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 2.3.19.1
Release : 3.fc36
URL :   https://www.dovecot.org/
Summary : Secure imap and pop3 server
Description :
Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security
primarily in mind. It also contains a small POP3 server. It supports mail
in either of maildir or mbox formats.

The SQL drivers and authentication plug-ins are in their subpackages.

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Update Information:

fix possible privilege escalation in dovecot when similar master and non-master
passdbs are used
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jul 21 2022 Fedora Release Engineering - 1:2.3.19.1-3
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_37_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue Jul 12 2022 Michal Hlavinka - 1:2.3.19.1-2
- fix possible privilege escalation when similar master and non-master passdbs are used
* Mon Jun 20 2022 Michal Hlavinka - 1:2.3.19.1-1
- updated to 2.3.19.1
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2105070 - dovecot: Privilege escalation possible in dovecot when similar master and non-master passdbs are used
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2105070
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-df5bfaec1a' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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