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Medium RLSA-2022:8208 1 CVE

Moderate: dovecot security and enhancement update

Published Nov 15, 2022 · Updated Feb 5, 2026

Summary

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 Rocky Linux 9.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 9 dovecot 1:2.3.16-7.el9

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2053368
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2095399
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2105070