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title: "CVE-2010-3304\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2010-3304

Publication date 24 September 2010

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

The ACL plugin in Dovecot 1.2.x before 1.2.13 propagates INBOX ACLs to
newly created mailboxes in certain configurations, which might allow remote
attackers to read mailboxes that have unintended weak ACLs.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2010-3304?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| dovecot | 10.10 maverick | Fixed 1:1.2.12-1ubuntu8.1 |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Fixed 1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6.3 |
| 9.10 karmic | Not affected |
| 9.04 jaunty | Ignored end of life |
| 8.04 LTS hardy | Not affected |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Not affected |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)
* [Patch details](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2010-3304?format=md#patch-details)

## Notes

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### [mdeslaur](https://launchpad.net/~mdeslaur)

upstream says only 1.2.x, but code is present in at least as far
back as jaunty. Code doesn't look affected in hardy and earlier.
Couldn't reproduce on karmic, so not-affected.

### Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)

| Package | Patch details |
| --- | --- |
| dovecot | * Upstream:   <http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/aae3b2a12cd0> |

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3304)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-3304)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2010-3304)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-3304)

### Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

+ [USN-1059-1](https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-1059-1)
+ Dovecot vulnerabilities
+ 7 February 2011

### Other references

* <http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2010-July/000163.html>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-3304>