UBUNTU-CVE-2013-6171

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-6171
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2013/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-6171.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-6171
Upstream
Related
  • USN-3556-2
Withdrawn
2025-07-18T16:42:56Z
Published
2013-12-09T00:00:00Z
Modified
2026-02-04T04:06:48.937110Z
Severity
  • Ubuntu - low
Summary
[none]
Details

checkpassword-reply in Dovecot before 2.2.7 performs setuid operations to a user who is authenticating, which allows local users to bypass authentication and access virtual email accounts by attaching to the process and using a restricted file descriptor to modify account information in the response to the dovecot-auth server.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / dovecot

Package

Name
dovecot
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/dovecot@1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2

Affected versions

1:2.*
1:2.1.7-7ubuntu3
1:2.2.9-1ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "dovecot-core"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "dovecot-dbg"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "dovecot-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "dovecot-gssapi"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "dovecot-imapd"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "dovecot-ldap"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "dovecot-lmtpd"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "dovecot-managesieved"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "dovecot-mysql"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "dovecot-pgsql"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "dovecot-pop3d"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "dovecot-sieve"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "dovecot-solr"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "dovecot-sqlite"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2",
            "binary_name": "mail-stack-delivery"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2013/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-6171.json"