CVE-2010-4011

Published Nov 17, 2010

Last updated 14 years ago

Overview

Description
Dovecot in Apple Mac OS X 10.6.5 10H574 does not properly manage memory for user names, which allows remote authenticated users to read the private e-mail of other persons in opportunistic circumstances via standard e-mail clients accessing a user's own mailbox, related to a "memory aliasing issue."
Source
product-security@apple.com
NVD status
Analyzed

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
4
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
8
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-200

Evaluator

Comment
Per: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00001.html 'Dovecot is only provided with Mac OS X Server systems. This issue only affects systems running Mac OS X Server v10.6.5 (10H574). This issue does not affect the Dovecot open source project.'
Impact
-
Solution
-

Configurations